News tagged with permeable pavement
EPA's new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment
Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground. The U.S. Environmental ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Probing Question: How well do we predict floods?
There was no Ark involved and it didn’t last 40 days -- but when the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain on the already saturated Northeast, the result was the Susquehanna River’s worst flooding in nearly ...
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Oct 05, 2011 |
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Sustainable landscape design for your property can be easier than you may think
Making your property more sustainable is a trend that seems to get more interest from homeowners every year. Many small changes can greatly improve sustainability and can be fairly simple to do, according to an Iowa State ...
May 03, 2011 |
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Green Infrastructure is Cheaper and Better for Stormwater Control: Study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Illinois at Chicago has advised the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to phase in green infrastructure requirements for better and cheaper control of stormwater ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the produc ...
May 18, 2009 |
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Strong, lightweight green material could replace concrete, but contains no cement
(PhysOrg.com) -- Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly ash and bottom ash left over from ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Urban trees enhance water infiltration
Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater management. Traditional stormwater management focuses on regulating the flow of runoff to waterways, but generally does ...
Nov 19, 2008 |
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