Permeable pavements: Gallery

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  Plastic grid paving, Coultice Park, Whitchurch-Stoufville, ON

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  Pervious asphalt, Coultice Park, Whitchurch-Stoufville, ON

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  Laneways retrofit program, Toronto ON

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  Permeable concrete at Lakeside Park, Mississauga ON

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  Permeable pavers on residential driveways, Brampton ON

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  Permeable pavers on a shared street, Georgetown ON

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  Permeable paving in the IMAX parking lot, Mississauga ON

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  Permeable pavers in parking bays, Mississauga ON (note inspection of bioretention occurring in the background)

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  Different colours of permeable pavers in parking lot, CVC headquarters, Mississauga ON

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  Inspection wells should be located at the edges or even off the side of permeable pavement areas

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  Water quality sampling in permeable pavement study, Mississauga ON

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  Perforated concrete block used to create a casual, semi-landscaped area, Thailand

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  Plastic grid paving used to reinforce grass along a narrow road, Malaysia

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  Permeable grid system filled with gravel

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  Permeable Pavement cross sections showing full and partial infiltration designs. Source: GVRD

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  Pervious concrete walkway plaza (Source: Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership)

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  PICP on a road with concrete edge restraints separating the impervious and permeable pavements (source STEP)

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  Porous asphalt parking lot (Source: Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership)

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  Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement on a residential road (source: STEP)

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  Permeable pavers in Hoboken, NJ used around trees which allow air and water to reach the roots (Source: Bruce Ferguson).

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  Permeable pavers used in combination with bioretention in a parking lot in Elmhurst, IL (Source: ICPI).

A mixture of mineral aggregates bound with bituminous materials, used in the construction and maintenance of paved surfaces.

An alternative practice to traditional impervious pavement, prevents the generation of runoff by allowing precipitation falling on the surface to infiltrate through the surface course into an underlying stone reservoir and, where suitable conditions exist, into the native soil.

Credit Valley Conservation

An alternative practice to traditional impervious pavement, prevents the generation of runoff by allowing precipitation falling on the surface to infiltrate through the surface course into an underlying stone reservoir and, where suitable conditions exist, into the native soil.

A hard surface area (e.g., road, parking area or rooftop) that prevents or retards the infiltration of water into the soil.

Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program

A shallow excavated surface depression containing prepared filter media, mulch, and planted with selected vegetation.