June 14, 2009Biggest buzz word in paving - permeable
Old school—rain water hits your roof, driveway or patio, drains to the street, collects in the gutter, runs down the storm drain to the sea where frankly the fish don’t need more water and certainly don’t want the fertilizers, brake fluids and other crud that comes with it.
New school—rain and landscape water hits your permeable paving, does not run off, soaks straight down into the soil where it winds up in our aquifers, filtered and clean, and then gets pumped back up into the tap in places where we need water. Yay!
What’s permeable now? Interlocking pavers, decomposed granite, gravel, concrete pavers, loose laid brick, even solid driveways where ribbons have been cut.
Whatever
The thing about living in Southern California is you never know whether to run for high ground or duck and cover. Now the Orange County Register reports a “Godzilla” size El Nino might be forming which could mean mud slides and flooding this winter. That’s after fall’s fires ravage our foothills.
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