Monitoring Porous Asphalt Stormwater Infiltration and Outflow
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 143, Issue 8
Abstract
Performance of porous asphalt (PA) was evaluated on a parking lot of the Washington State University Puyallup campus that included three pavement treatments in triplicate: maintained impervious asphalt (MIA), maintained porous asphalt (MPA), and unmaintained porous asphalt (UPA). Maintained treatments were annually swept with a regenerative air street sweeper. Infiltration rates measured annually using an infiltration ring declined over the course of the study (2011–2015) from 118 to for the MPA, and from 134 to for UPA, respectively. Lower infiltration rates on maintained cells relative to unmaintained cells are ascribed to the air-blast and suction cycle that characterizes the type of street sweeper used. The authors hypothesize that particulate matter was forced deeper into the porous structure of the pavement wearing course, reducing infiltration rates in the maintained cells. Annual maintenance was shown to be too infrequent and did not prevent infiltration rates from declining, with parts of the pavement cells becoming clogged. However, performance of the pavement as a whole, measured by relating total storm inflow to storm outflow, did not decline over the study period with 99.5% of storm inflow infiltrating into the porous asphalt pavement surface. Time-series analysis showed that peak flow mitigation of stormwater was considerably superior with permeable pavements in comparison with impervious pavement surfaces.
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Acknowledgments
This study was funded by the Puget Sound National Estuary Program (NEP) Watershed Grant Program. Our gratitude to technician extraordinaire Richard Bembenek, who played a critical role in data collection. He was ably assisted by Carly Thompson, Laurie Larson-Pugh, and Brad Pugh. The authors are thankful for all their efforts.
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Volume 143 • Issue 8 • August 2017
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Received: Aug 31, 2016
Accepted: Feb 7, 2017
Published online: May 26, 2017
Published in print: Aug 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Oct 26, 2017
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