Permeable pavements: Gallery

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  Plastic grid paving, Coultice Park, Whitchurch-Stoufville, ON

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  Pervious asphalt, Coultice Park, Whitchurch-Stoufville, ON

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  PaveDrain PICP type paving, LSRCA headquarters, Newmarket, ON

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  Laneways retrofit program, Toronto ON

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  Permeable concrete at Lakeside Park, Mississauga ON

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  Permeable pavers on residential driveways, Brampton ON

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  Permeable pavers on a shared street, Georgetown ON

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  Permeable paving in the IMAX parking lot, Mississauga ON

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  Permeable pavers in parking bays, Mississauga ON (note inspection of bioretention occurring in the background)

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  Permeable pavers in parking lot, CVC headquarters, Mississauga ON

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  Permeable pavers in parking lot, CVC headquarters, Mississauga ON

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  Inspection wells should be located at the edges or even off the side of permeable pavement areas

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  Water quality sampling in permeable pavement study, Mississauga ON

A mixture of mineral aggregates bound with bituminous materials, used in the construction and maintenance of paved surfaces.

Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

An alternative practice to traditional impervious pavement, prevents the generation of runoff by allowing precipitation falling on the surface to infiltrate through the surface course into an underlying stone reservoir and, where suitable conditions exist, into the native soil.

Credit Valley Conservation

An alternative practice to traditional impervious pavement, prevents the generation of runoff by allowing precipitation falling on the surface to infiltrate through the surface course into an underlying stone reservoir and, where suitable conditions exist, into the native soil.