LYNN NEARY, host: The city of Philadelphia has one of the nation's oldest sewage systems; and like many cities around the country, Philadelphia's sewerage can fill up pretty quickly in a rainstorm, leading to flooding and other problems. The city's water department is working on an ambitious plan to change the way water flows through Philadelphia streets. Brad Linder reports. BRAD LINDER: Howard Neukrug is standing on an asphalt basketball court in West Philadelphia, but Neukrug isn't here to play. The director of Philadelphia's Office of Watersheds is holding a one-gallon jug of water, which he proceeds to pour onto the middle of the court. At first it puddles, as you'd expect a normal pavement but then. HOWARD NEUKRUG (Director, Office of Watersheds, Philadelphia Water Department): You can see in the middle there it's starting to sink in like a sponge into the ground. Free Pollution PowerPoint Templates. Study the science of Environmental Pollution with free Industrial PPT slides. Make a presentation on Natural Sciences regarding. Environmental Pollution is an international journal that seeks to publish papers that report results from original, novel research that addresses significant environmental pollution issues and problems and contribute new knowledge to science. The editors welcome high quality papers where the pollutants. So it removes the water rather than letting the water puddle and sit there for hours and hours or days and days. The water is going down into a gravel bed underneath here and then eventually infiltrating into the ground water for West Philadelphia. LINDER: What Neukrug is looking at is porous pavement. Watershed's Program Manager Joanne Dahme says it starts out like any other pavement material. But manufacture doesn't add in the fine particles and binders that make normal pavement waterproof.
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