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:
  • Porous pavements
  • Pavement performance
  • Runoff
  • Infiltration
  • Water quality management
  • Field studies
  • Friction course
  • Asphalt pavements
• 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.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27760/dot_27760_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.09 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:086fee4b1b0d0a642e679945616b75bbeabd90af7653e4ebf0c0a0734e34bf48