Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can also get concrete mixed to be porous as well so water saturates down beneath it. Here in California where it doesn't freeze very often, or very deeply, this is a very positive advantage. Adam On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:14:15 -0500, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > Don - That new asphalt is amazing stuff. It's porous like a sponge. > There are short sections of Rt. 128 and 195 paved with it near here. > When you hit the new asphalt in a heavy rain, all of the water thrown > up by the cars in front of you is just gone and the road noise goes > way down. No problems with freezing yet as far as I have seen or > heard. May all our highways be paved with it from here on. > > > >Richard, > >Correct, it is to remove rain water from the road to prevent > >hydroplaning. Although, the Georgia DOT has come up with some pretty > >interesting asphalt mixes that actually gets the water off the road > >through the asphalt. When properly done, it is quite marvelous. When > >the supplier screws up, then you have half a mile of asphalt peeling up > >like an orange peel as happened down Savannah way five or six years ago. > > > >Unfortunately, it doesn't work in areas that get really hard freezes, or > >so I have been told. > > > >Don > >dorysrus@mindspring.com > >