Hydrologic Design of Pervious Concrete

A properly designed pervious concrete pavement system can reduce the environmental impact often associated with development. Pervious concrete pavement systems can also be used to improve the environmental performance of existing sites without compromising the business value of a property by replacing existing conventional pavements. The capability to simultaneously maintain water quality, reduce flooding, increase base flow, and preserve valuable parking areas for the property owner, especially in retrofit applications, are capabilities not easily obtained with other water quality or flood mitigation alternatives. Pervious concrete also provides a unique leadership opportunity for stewardship in context-sensitive construction and Low-Impact Development (LID). This document describes the fundamental hydrologic behavior of pervious concrete pavement systems and demonstrates basic design methodologies appropriate for a variety of sites and circumstances. This document also briefly discusses limitations of these methodologies.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from the Portland Cement Association
• Corporate Authors:

  Portland Cement Association

  5420 Old Orchard Road
  Skokie, IL  United States  60077
• Authors:
  • Leming, M L
  • Malcom, H R
  • Tennis, P D
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: 71p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Context sensitive design; Design; Development; Environmental impacts; Floods; Flow; Hydrology; Parking; Porous pavements; Property values; Water quality
• Uncontrolled Terms: Low impact development; Mitigation
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Materials; I32: Concrete;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01080019
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 2007 10:26AM