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Article: EPA's new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment.
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- November 15, 2009
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Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a study that will investigate ways to reduce pollution that can run off paved surfaces and improve how water filters back into the ground. EPA is testing a variety of different permeable pavement materials and rain gardens in the parking lot at the agency's Edison, N.J. facility, which houses offices and its laboratory. Most major sources of pollution going into our waterways are well-controlled, but pollution runoff from ...
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... ... District 203 has received a $333,978 grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The money will be used for installation of rain gardens, bioswales, permeable pavement, vegetated buffer strips, green roofs and a detention basin ...
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