High-tech Water Runoff Parking Lot Experiment Fails

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

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July 14, 2002, 11:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

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."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

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