Biopaver
Every parking lot, driveway, sidewalk and road is an impervious surface acting as an unbroken barrier between the wet rain falling from the sky and the dry earth below. Water draining from these surfaces gains speed and quickly rolls off all exposed ground, and even minor rains become small scale floods eroding what little soil is exposed, quickly filling municipal storm systems.
Biopaving is a “green” solution for storm water management that integrates impervious surfaces and islands of biomitigating and bioremediating plant material. These bio-islands of phytoremediating plants are manufactured into the product and unwrapped by the environment after installation through biodegradation.
The Biopaver is an innovative interlocking concrete paver with prepackaged soil and phytoremediating planting material. Once the paver is exposed to the elements, the mold and packaging biodegrade and help set the paver into place, and bioremediating plants begin to grow. These tough plants filter the contaminants from the storm water as it passes through this pervious heart of the paver. [via the Biopaver website; suggested by Clayton Whitman, Seattle.]
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