Pavements occupy twice the surface area of buildings in the U.S. In urban watersheds they produce two-thirds of excess runoff and are responsible for essentially all the runoff pollution and ...

The city is testing out a new form of green infrastructure to help prevent flooding in Brooklyn: porous pavement. Seven miles of porous pavement will be installed along a network of streets in Sunset ...

A completed section of path shows the color and smoothness of the finish. Water percolates through the pavement into the ground, where it is returned to the water table naturally. A new kind of ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – New York City is installing 7 miles of porous pavement in Brooklyn, with the hope it will ease flooding in areas prone to it. Those areas include Sunset Park, Kensington, and ...

When office workers at the Wellesley Office Park on Williams Street in Wellesley, MA want to get outside, they can enjoy attractive outdoor areas with comfortable seating. Now they can also get right ...

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 fraught relationship with ...

BOROUGH PARK TO KENSINGTON — SEVEN MILES OF POROUS PAVEMENT are being installed along area roadways to help better manage stormwater and reduce flooding and sewer overflows, NYC Department of ...

PATERSON — In an effort to prevent heavy rains from causing sewage backups, officials from Rutgers University are looking for places in the city to create rain gardens and to install permeable ...