Presentation Abstract
Recent advances in several broadly allied scientific disciplines have shown that green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) can to some extent restore the natural pathways that stormwater takes from landscape to stream. Permeable pavements are one of several GSI techniques that are commonly used across the country to mitigate the effects of stormwater on downstream receiving waters. In the State of Washington, the use of GSI is mandated for any new or retrofit construction project that meets certain criteria. The talk will focus on performance studies of a 9-cell replicated asphalt pavement test facility that is installed at the Washington State University Puyallup Research and Extension Center Campus, Puyallup, WA. The asphalt test facility has 9 lined cells - 3 cells are constructed with conventional asphalt and 6 with porous asphalt. Runoff from the impervious cells acted as a control and were compared to runoff from the pervious cells. All water applied to the surface and that which infiltrated through the sub-base aggregate was monitored and collected at the outflow. Artificial and natural storm events were used to test both hydrologic and biogeochemical properties of the two systems. Pollutants evaluated were suspended sediments, metals, nutrients, and hydrocarbons. Results from this work show that porous asphalt pavements are able to infiltrate as much as 99.5% of incident rainfall. Additionally, preliminary results suggest that porous asphalt pavement systems are capable of considerable treatment of several key stormwater pollutants. This work will be presented in full at the conference.
Session Title
The Performance of Low Impact Development Applied Across Land Use Scales Using Flow Control, Water Quality and Biological Metrics
Keywords
Porous asphalt pavements, Stormwater, Stormwater quantity and quality mitigation
Conference Track
SSE12: Land-Use, Growth, and Development
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2018 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE12-491
Start Date
4-4-2018 3:45 PM
End Date
4-4-2018 4:00 PM
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Pavements, Porous--Washington (State)--Puyallup; Pollution prevention--Washington (State)--Puyallup; Runoff--Washington (State)--Puyallup--Quality control
Subjects – Names (LCNAF)
Washington State University. Puyallup Research and Extension Center
Geographic Coverage
Puyallup (Wash.); Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
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Type
Text
Language
English
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Performance of porous asphalt pavements: stormwater quantity and quality mitigation
Recent advances in several broadly allied scientific disciplines have shown that green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) can to some extent restore the natural pathways that stormwater takes from landscape to stream. Permeable pavements are one of several GSI techniques that are commonly used across the country to mitigate the effects of stormwater on downstream receiving waters. In the State of Washington, the use of GSI is mandated for any new or retrofit construction project that meets certain criteria. The talk will focus on performance studies of a 9-cell replicated asphalt pavement test facility that is installed at the Washington State University Puyallup Research and Extension Center Campus, Puyallup, WA. The asphalt test facility has 9 lined cells - 3 cells are constructed with conventional asphalt and 6 with porous asphalt. Runoff from the impervious cells acted as a control and were compared to runoff from the pervious cells. All water applied to the surface and that which infiltrated through the sub-base aggregate was monitored and collected at the outflow. Artificial and natural storm events were used to test both hydrologic and biogeochemical properties of the two systems. Pollutants evaluated were suspended sediments, metals, nutrients, and hydrocarbons. Results from this work show that porous asphalt pavements are able to infiltrate as much as 99.5% of incident rainfall. Additionally, preliminary results suggest that porous asphalt pavement systems are capable of considerable treatment of several key stormwater pollutants. This work will be presented in full at the conference.
