the new road has a pervious surface that will cut down on the amount of water that collects on it during heavy rains

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Other elements include pervious paving materials, rain gardens, French drains and more. Amanda Mcelfresh, NOLA.com, "Upcoming virtual workshops to encourage more rain barrel usage in New Orleans," 21 Aug. 2020

The team designed their fly ash cement to be pervious, meaning water can pour through it. David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists Make Concrete With Trash Instead of Cement," 12 July 2018

Will the development team consider ways to mitigate the storm water runoffs by using innovative landscape elements and green infrastructure and low impact design strategies such (as) bioretention areas, filtration strips and pervious pavement? Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, "Ilitches can maximize parking money thanks to favorable city ruling on LCA lot designs," 6 Mar. 2018

Later that year, the city also received a separate $108,000 Green Infrastructure Grant to redo the corner parking lot at Larchmere and Kendall with pervious pavement. Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, "Lane closures, parking around Larchmere sewer project to reopen," 29 Jan. 2018

Charbonnet struggled to describe pervious pavement, an increasingly common stormwater reduction tool that has been slow to catch on in New Orleans. Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, "Charbonnet says she'd sue oil firms over coastal damage, Cantrell says option 'on the table'," 26 Oct. 2017

These have led to houses in flood plains, and pavement replacing wetlands and pervious soils. Fortune, "We Need to Be Better Prepared for the Next Irma," 11 Sep. 2017

Anyone suggesting that more wetlands or more pervious surfaces would have done anything to mitigate what has just happened is lacking a proper sense of scale. Charles Marohn, National Review, "Piling on Houston," 5 Sep. 2017

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