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High-tech Water Runoff Parking Lot Experiment Fails

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Laura Kranz
14 July 2002 - 11:00am

Two years ago a Chicago College installed a new, high-tech parking lot intended to percolate percolate rainwater into the ground.

Now the university is about to tear out the failed system to replace it with something completely different. The school is faced with eating much of the 300-car parking lot's cost, part of a $1.5 million project that included a soccer field... Why didn't it work?The gravel used, Alabama redstone, didn't stand up to the weight of vehicles. It broke down to the point it was no longer porous."

Full Story: College to replace parking lot built to save 30 trees
Source: Chicago Sun-Times, July 14, 2002
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