stormwater management

Detective Liguori is Back!

The Bay Area just had it’s first big storm of the year - foretelling of a very rainy winter season ahead! While most people took shelter, David Liguori hit the road in search of the latest scoop when it comes to pervious concrete outperforming conventional concrete and asphalt surfaces.

Where did his stormwater sleuthing lead him to this time? To a very water-bogged Daly City. Luckily for him, he found dry land thanks to a pervious parking lot that BAPC installed a few months ago. How did it fair in such torrential rain? Perfectly! Just take a look for yourself.

New Detail Alert – Read All About It!

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New Detail Alert – Read All About It!

Bay Area Pervious Concrete was recently asked to install our decorative exposed aggregate pervious pavement in the parking areas of a high-end residential project. The driveway itself was a beautiful 2’ x 2’ Italian stone and was designed to be permeable. To achieve this, the landscape contractor used a Class II permeable base and then mortared directly on the base to set the stones. The bed of mortar was carefully placed so as not to fill the spaces between the stone, creating a passageway for surface water to pass through to the base rock.

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One of These Things (Is Not Like the Other)

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One of These Things (Is Not Like the Other)

“One of these things is not like the other,” Ernie from Sesame Street said it best.  For those that claim impervious surfaces, such as asphalt and concrete, and pervious surfaces are synonymous, that is not true.  Bay Area Pervious Concrete’s David Liguori went out on the field this week to report on some real-time comparisons between these two surfaces during our most recent storm, and the evidence is striking. 

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