In February 2009, seven permeable pavements were tested in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
These were selected from more than 100 candidate PICPs and were chosen because they had been
in service for periods between eight and over 10 years. A further three pavements were selected for
testing in South Australia ranging in age between approximately 9 and 10 years. Details of the
pavements are given in Table 1. All of the pavements had granular basecourses except for the Sydney
Sports Ground paving which had a basecourse of recycled concrete overlain with a thin capping
of aggregate. The pavements function as various landuses from pedestrian areas to car parks, roads
and residential streets. The PICPs evaluated included two main types of pavers, namely those with
drainage openings and those with widened joints. All of the NSW pavements used pavers with
openings located along the paver joints whilst those in South Australia also incorporated pavers using
widened joints to infiltrate stormwater runoff. In two of the South Australian pavements (Kilkaldy
Avenue and Victoria Road) the joints had been left unfilled to facilitate a high infiltration capacity.
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