Worcester, the largest city in Central Massachusetts with a population of 207,000, has porous pavement in some parking lots at a few city parks, but it’s not widely used.

In a 1999 fact sheet on storm water technology and porous pavement, the EPA stated that traditional porous pavements had a failure rate as high as 75% because of "poor design, inadequate construction ...

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. ... But if needed, one or both ...

Holes in porous pavement can get clogged with debris. Worcester uses porous pavement on some parking lots at parks. Porous pavement is 10% to 20% more expensive than traditional asphalt.

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 ...

SEVEN MILES OF POROUS PAVEMENT are being installed along area roadways to help better manage ... Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala and Department of Design and Construction (DDC) Commissioner ...

Long-lasting pervious concrete pavement systems start at the design phase of the project. Early pervious pavements often had a very unrealistic pervious-to-impervious ratio, with small areas of ...

According to Prof. Kandhal, the porous pavement constructed in the US still looks good and works well decades later. Even in India, the pavements, if maintained properly, can last more than 20 years.

"We started getting calls about porous asphalt pavements," recalls Dave Vogt, a Bend, OR-based contractor. "So in 2008 we decided to take the lead in central Oregon and show this market how porous ...

The lasagna design helps direct the rain into the ground, keeping it out of the sewer system. ... New York City plans to have installed 100 miles of porous pavement by 2031, ...