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[Robyn Francis <erda@nor.com.au>]

No solutions for parking surface given the climate, but can the design
utilise the water catchment potential - you could simply consider the car
park as a huge catchment area to be harvested with filtration reed ponds
etc....
Robyn

On 20/3/04 9:40 AM, "mIEKAL aND" <dtv@mwt.net> wrote:

> I'm working on the permaculture & landscape design to a new 40 acre
> campus being built by Organic Valley.  We're putting in employee
> gardens, 5 acres of prairie, edible landscaping in the parking lots, &
> hopefully a 20 acre demonstration farm in the future.  Also in the
> design is an iniative to keep the whole place certified organically
> since that's the benchmark of the industry we're in.  The biggest
> disappointment with the process so far is that they are having a 250
> car parking lot complete with the asphalt.  None of the alternatives
> that have been looked into so far will hold up to a lot of freezing &
> thawing & in some years a lot of snow plowing.  Anyone have any
> experience in a northern clime with something other than gravel,
> asphalt, & these permeable tiles which shift around & would make it
> hard for snow plowing?
> 
> mIEKAL
> 
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