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St. Louis Sewer
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St. Louis, MO 63103-2555
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October 30, 2009
Mr. Evan Bolesta
Director of Marketing, Concrete Council
8000 Maryland Ave., Suite 1320
St. Louis, MO 63105
RE: Pervious Concrete — Proprietary BMP Application
Dear Mr. Bolesta,
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) has reviewed your application of pervious
concrete that is a proprietary pervious pavement type of BMP. MSD hereby grants Provisional Use
Level approval for the pervious concrete with the storage bed underneath. MSD understands that
the pervious concrete enhances surface permeability by the porous openings in the concrete. The
open graded stone storage bed underlying the pervious concrete provides temporary storage of the
runoff.
MSD has determined that pervious concrete with open graded stone storage bed system may be
used under the following conditions:
1. Proposed uses and designs of the product must be in general conformance with the
information and methodologies provided in the Concrete Council application dated August
4, 2008.
2. Channel Protection Volume (CPv) storage may be provided in the storage bed underneath
the pavement. Storage bed shall have a minimum thickness of 6 inches.
3. With a minimum gravel storage bed of 12" underneath the pavement and an underdrain at
the base of the storage bed, the post -developed curve number (CN) may be reduced. Except
Type A soils, the CN number that should be used should be reflective of Open Space Good
Condition areas and the soil type of the underlying native soil. For convenience, the CN
numbers are provided below.
Soil A B C D
CN 61 61 74 80
4. The imperviousness used in calculating the Water Quality Volume (WQv) may be reduced.
The area of pervious pavement may be considered as pervious area for the purpose of
calculating Rv, and accordingly WQv.
5. Pervious concrete may be used to provide WQv treatment, when used in conjunction with a
properly designed infiltration basin/trench, sand filter, or other approved BMP per the 2000
Maryland Stormwater Design Manual. Your BMP application provides several examples of
pervious concrete applications. As noted above this system is not to be used as a stand-alone
WQv treatment BMP. The pervious concrete pavement must be designed in conjunction
with an infiltration basin/trench, sand filter, or other supplemental BMP in order to meet
MSD WQv treatment criteria. Per recommendations from the Concrete Council, it is noted
that the supplemental BMP shall not be located underneath the pervious concrete/base
system, but instead would have to be located downstream.
6. Pervious Concrete can be considered as pervious area for the purpose of calculating Water
Quality Volume (WQv). It can be considered as 5% impervious when calculating the
differential runoff with PI factors. However, the Pervious Concrete will be considered as
100% impervious area for the purpose of calculating pipe sizes downstream.
7. While pervious concrete is approved for provisional use, its application shall be limited to
low traffic areas.
8. Project specific design calculations and maintenance plans must be included within the
project's "Stormwater Management Facilities Report" prepared by the consulting Engineer.
The initial installation of the pervious concrete in the MSD shall include the following:
1) A manufacturer's or vendor's representative must be onsite during the proprietary
BMP installation to ensure the product's installation requirements are met.
2) Three pervious pavement core samples shall be submitted to MSD to serve as
representative samples of the placed pavement. The three core samples shall be a
minimum of 4 inches in diameter and shall be obtained from the placed pavement
installation.
3) The manufacturer or vendor must perform quarterly inspections of the proprietary
BMP during its first year of operation, which will include visual inspections. MSD
requests to be invited to these inspections to further enhance familiarity and
understanding of the BMP.
4) Formal reports shall be submitted to MSD for each quarterly inspection. The reports
shall include summaries and photographs of the pavement. The reports shall also
evaluate the performance of the owner's adherence to the approved maintenance
program, and offer suggestions for any areas of improvement.
The Pervious Concrete is not approved for general use at this time.
MSD reserves the ability to withdraw or modify this approval based on subsequent information,
including information indicating that pervious concrete does not satisfy MSD rules, requirements,
or construction specifications.
Sincerely,
MAcal T &aryl
Michael T. Buechter, P.E.
Principal Engineer (BMP Committee Chairman)
Engineering/Design
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District