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.

She added: “I’m working on this because I believe we can fix this.” New York City plans to have installed 100 miles of porous pavement by 2031, Enoch said.

As climate change puts more of the world at risk of flooding, landscape architects are looking beyond disaster response, to future-facing “sponge tactics”. The concept is epic, but a street-by ...

When intense rainfall hits concrete pavements, car parks, buildings and public spaces, it has nowhere else to go, forced to run off into drains, sewers and rivers that can become inundated.

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 ...

NYC bets big on porous pavement with $32M flood-control project It’s the city’s first large-scale implementation of the approach after years of testing different porous pavement products.

Dive Brief: New York City hopes to ease flooding with its first large-scale implementation of porous pavement, allowing stormwater to drain into the ground rather than overwhelm the city’s sewer ...

SEVEN MILES OF POROUS PAVEMENT are being installed along area roadways to help better manage stormwater and reduce flooding and overflows.