Innovative Storm Water Management Examples:

Frankfort Public Safety Parking:
This parking lot was created as part of a stormwater compliance initiative by the City of Frankfort, Kentucky, by tearing-down an older building and re-developing the site as a parking area. The pervious concrete parking surface captures and infiltrates the rain water that falls on its area, completely eliminating runoff from the parking lot. The project received the 2009 Project of the Year Award for Storm Water Improvements from the Kentucky Chapter of the American Public Works Association.

Two-tiered parking area, Pervious Concrete parking surface.


An Infiltration Basin was constructed beneath the parking area.

Wilmore Walk:
In this urban redevelopment project, a combination of Bio-Retention Rain Gardens and Permeable Concrete Pavement treats over 92% of the new impervious surface storm drainage, with no loss of buildable space.

Bio-Retention Rain Gardens:

Pervious Concrete Parking / Infiltration Basin:

Jetton Park:
This low impact development project uses Rain Gardens to pre-treat most runoff. Infiltration basins (1 garden & 1 pond) capture the first-flush pollutants. This combination reduced the size of the detention pond by 45%.