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 ...

Elmhurst Development, Planning and Zoning Committee members, who have been discussing possible limits on impervious surfaces in residential construction since July of last year, this week agreed on an ...

What the spatial pattern of global urban surface area that human depends on is the important issue, which is widely concerned at present. Research have established regression models that estimated the ...

In this study, we investigated the relationship between watershed characteristics and hydrology using high spatial resolution impervious surface area (ISA), hydrologic simulations and spatial ...

Urban land-use/cover changes and their effects on the eco-environment have long been an active research topic in the urbanization fields. Prof. Kuang Wenhui's group at Key Laboratory of Land Surface ...

Charleston County could soon limit the amount of impervious surfaces — like driveways, sidewalks and parking lots — that owners can have on their properties. The goal is to address the issue of ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- City Council has passed both an ordinance and resolution related to Lakewood’s more than $300 million in infrastructure projects planned for the next two decades. Proposed by Mayor ...

Hilltown Township Board of Supervisors are in the final stages of looking at an amendement to the township’s zoning ordinance that would increase the maximum impervious surface ratio permitted on ...