Rainwater runoff comes from roofs, driveways, and parking lots. These and other constructed hard surfaces are called impervious. Impervious surfaces prevent or slow rainwater infiltration, which ...

Impervious surfaces such as driveways, roads, parking lots, patios, and walkways do not allow rainwater to pass through the substrate into the ground. Instead, they cause rain water to run off at an ...

Large backyard garages are becoming increasingly popular with Hutchinson residents. But the city is exploring ways to limit how residents get to the garages, because changes in how developers lay ...

A rain garden is a type of bioretention, constructed as a shallow depression to hold and infiltrate water from rooftops via downspouts, driveways or other impervious surfaces to reduce polluted ...

Road widths are narrowed and other impervious surfaces are reduced ... to work Other strategies include permeable pavement for driveways, rooftop gardens and cisterns to collect rainwater ...