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Good question. An obsession with pavement is not healthy. However,
as we've noted on the IS home page, impervious surfaces are widely
recognized as an excellent indicator of urbanization, and the
impacts of urbanization on water resources. The point is, those
interested in preventing and/or mitigating the impacts of urbanization
on water resources need to be aware of impervious surfaces—their
relationship to the water cycle, their impacts on waterways, and
the ways that this relationship can be used to inform better community
planning and site design.
For the former, we refer you to the articles below on Impervious
Surface and Water Quality (this is not the emphasis of this
site, but we can send you to people who do this for a living).
For the later, we refer you to the Planning
and Design section of this site. This section, admittedly,
deviously reroutes you to other portions of the NEMO website,
but then again, we've been doing this for a long time and there's
a lot to visit.
HOWEVER: To truly get into planning and design implications of
impervious surfaces, you probably need to know more about Estimating
and Mapping them. The lion's share of this site is devoted to
a variety of UConn/CLEAR studies (and a few other key studies) on
this topic.
Lastly, if you're from Connecticut, the Data
& Maps section will contain a lot of the information you
need, thus relieving you of the need to slog through those complicated
papers in the aforementioned section.
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