Performance of a porous pavement system on the Maine Mall Road in South Portland.

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• Creators:
  Peabody, Dale
• Corporate Creators:
  Maine. Dept. of Transportation. Transportation Research Division
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Asphalt Pavements Field Studies Friction Course Infiltration Pavement Performance Porous Pavements Runoff Water Quality Management
• Publication/ Report Number:
  43013
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Maine
• Corporate Publisher:
  Maine. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Porous pavements have been successfully used by developers since the mid-70’s as a means to make
  
  traditional impervious facilities, such as parking lots, handle storm water in a more environmentally
  
  friendly way. Traditional pavement materials used in these facilities can create storm water run off
  
  problems such as erosion of adjacent surfaces and poor water quality of downstream watersheds. Porous
  
  pavement actually allows storm water to seep into the subsurface, typically a stone reservoir and sand
  
  filter, and dissipate into the underlying substrate. Porous pavement systems provide an effective surface
  
  for vehicle traffic while also providing storm water management that improves water quality. Some
  
  studies have shown that these systems have a high removal rate of total suspended solids, metals, oils and
  
  grease, and other harmful contaminants. Other benefits are a “cooling” effect of the storm water and a
  
  reduction in demand on the storm sewers. The surface can consist of either an asphalt pavement or
  
  concrete pavement material that meets the public expectations for smoothness while allowing excellent
  
  drainage into the underlying collection system.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:086fee4b1b0d0a642e679945616b75bbeabd90af7653e4ebf0c0a0734e34bf48
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27760/dot_27760_DS1.pdf
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