The Pervious parking lot
Scott Harper of the Virginian Pilot writes this morning about the largest yet known pervious parking lot.
The parking lot, which will serve an expansion of the Prime Outlets shopping mall in Williamsburg, is advertised as "the largest pervious concrete project in the United States," one that covers 7 acres of Earth with this environment-friendly building material.
The lot is larger and more complex than others in Pennsylvania, Arizona and California, as well as an eco-friendly commuter parking lot at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, officials said.
Harper describes the pavement as like rice krispie treats -- porous enough to let water pass through. An interesting idea.
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.
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There's an even larger pervious concrete installation in Westminster Maryland, where Shelter Systems Inc. paved their enire yard with pervious concrete, and saved about $400k in the stormwater management system they otherwise would have had to build to handle all the runoff.
Posted by: hobobob | March 20, 2008 9:05 PM