by frog
The North Shore Times reports that a new trial of permeable paving in Birkdale has been highly successful, decreasing storm water run-off by up to 75 per cent.
The run off also had a much lower content of harmful metals like copper and zinc. Stormwater contamination is something Auckland has a bit of a problem with according to the ARC.
These are the kind of innovative ideas that it would be great if our Minister of Transport was considering to reduce the transport sector’s (heavy) burden on the environment.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Wed, September 16th, 2009
Tags: environment, transport, water
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
This could lead to less contamination of the surface run-off and more contamination of the ground-water instead. That might be worse.
Trevor.
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