When property is developed, pavements and building roofs decrease the rainfall infiltration into the soil and increase the quantity of stormwater runoff. The rain that previously soaked into the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - An unremarkable alley near Coe College is to serve as a sample battleground for a possible new, albeit more expensive weapon in the fight against flash flooding - permeable pavement.

In a quiet corner of campus, an experiment is underway that promises to help demonstrate new ways to manage stormwater in the context of climate change. A 12-car student parking lot on Mandelle Road, ...

Huge numbers of salmon in the streams of Washington state's Puget Sound die every year due to tire pollution, but researchers may have found a way to prevent the massacre. By making pavements ...

The primary function of porous or permeable pavement is to allow water to run rapidly through the surface to a sub-layer, which allows general or directed drainage. Permeable asphalt and concrete are ...