Porous paving surfaces have been around for decades, but they’re expensive and often didn’t work well. Interest in such surfaces among governments and developers is on the rebound, ...

Porous pavement is designed to allow air and water to pass through spaces between large pieces of gravel in the surface layer, rather than run off an impervious top. It helps rainwater and snowmelt ...

When Jefferson Parish leaders unveiled a nearly half-mile stretch of porous pavement in Fat City two years ago, they hailed it as a first step in changing the parish's often ...

Although various kinds of porous pavements have been around for more than 25 years, the FilterPave system is the first to use recycled glass as one of its components. Presto Geosystems, Appleton, WI, ...

Pervious paving can help ease the system's burden and combat subsidence that has accelerated in the years since then. "If that water cannot go underground, it must go into the drainage system ...

Porous pavement cannot be installed on every block due to other conflicts in the streets and sidewalks, such as sewer and water mains and private infrastructure. ...

Brooklyn’s new porous pavement “will also save time and money,” said Department of Design and Construction Commissioner Thomas Foley, “since porous pavement installations can prevent flooding without ...

Permeable pavements are alternatives to traditional concrete and asphalt that allow the rain that falls on the surface of the material to pass through and infiltrate into the ground below. ... Beneath ...

Porous pavement, unlike traditional concrete or asphalt, allows rainwater to drain through it and into the soil below — preventing it from filling up streets and pouring into sewers. Less water in the ...