Successful engineering

From Mary Jensen, Sustainability Programs:

This is a photo of the parking lot adjacent to the new Alumni Building. Due to City regulations, we’ve installed permeable pavement. Permeable pavement is a coarser asphalt that allows the water to filter through instead of running off, which is what happens with most pavement. Here’s a link for more info.
We’ve only had it in since October, so we don’t have a full years worth of experience and we will have to be careful because it requires a different, more careful maintenance. That said, check out the picture forwarded to Bud Winsor by the engineering firm that designed it showing the permeable next to the traditional, existing parking lot behind the historical society.

Bud adds:

It’s such a win/win on many levels: stormwater drainage control, salt/chemical use reduction for ice control, slip trip and fall liability, etc., etc. ….