With funding under Onondaga County’s award-winning Save the Rain program, Crest Acura’s porous asphalt lot was completed this summer. The project was designed by Natural Systems Engineering and constructed by Lan-Co Construction (East Syracuse, New York). The porous asphalt was designed to capture runoff from the 10,000 sq ft porous surface and the 9950 sq ft impervious asphalt lot located to the northeast. Roughly 1000 sq ft of greenspace was added to replace asphalt in the right-of-way of the City of Syracuse.
The project will manage a minimum of 400,000 gal of strormwater per year, removing that flow from Syracuse’s combined sewer system.