Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicholas Erickson, Fitchburg's commissioner of public works, stands on a strip of permeable asphalt walkway installed between ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The concrete oozed rather than poured out of the mixer truck, almost as if reluctant to cover the ...

The new curbs and sidewalks along Ohio Street, just west of College Avenue downtown, look like they were poured with a bad batch of concrete. The texture is that of large-curd cottage cheese. The ...

A completed section of path shows the color and smoothness of the finish. Water percolates through the pavement into the ground, where it is returned to the water table naturally. A new kind of ...

One driveway at a time, many green-minded homeowners and communities are opting for permeable paving options instead of traditional asphalt. "It's much better for the environment because it helps cut ...

When Jefferson Parish leaders unveiled a nearly half-mile stretch of porous pavement in Fat City two years ago, they hailed it as a first step in changing the parish's often fraught relationship with ...

Holes in porous pavement can get clogged with debris. Worcester uses porous pavement on some parking lots at parks. Porous pavement is 10% to 20% more expensive than traditional asphalt. (Correction: ...

One driveway at a time, many green-minded homeowners and communities are opting for permeable paving options instead of traditional asphalt. "It's much better for the environment because it helps cut ...

The concrete oozed rather than poured out of the mixer truck, almost as if reluctant to cover the ground — partly because it won’t, entirely. Laborers shoveled pebbly gobs around to form a new ...

One driveway at a time, many green-minded homeowners and communities are opting for permeable paving options instead of traditional asphalt. “It’s much better for the environment because it helps cut ...