A dedicated crew of depavers kicked asphalt on this rad pilot at the Sylvania campus of Portland Community College. The project, a part of Tualatin Riverkeeper’s 5,000 Acres Initiative, is an effort to pioneer low impact approaches to reduce stormwater runoff from the 5,000+ acres of parking lots in Oregon’s Tualatin River Basin. This depave removed pavement in order to install new tree wells within the parking lot to reduce runoff, without reducing parking capacity. Innovative, absorptive tree wells will use “structural soil” to support the weight of cars and pavement yet give tree roots room to grow.

When: Depaved June 22, 2013
Where: Portland Community College Sylvania Campus, Lot #10 – 12000 SW 49th Avenue
Size: 400 square feet
Coordinator: Josh Cabot

Funder: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Partners: Portland Community College, Tualatin Riverkeepers, Green Girl Land Development Solutions
View: the Site Plan and learn more about the Parking Forest
Download: Pics from this event and see our other projects

: Planting in October 2013

3 Comments

Brian Wegener on June 25, 2013 at 3:19 pm

Thanks for all the great support, coordination, photos, volunteers and doughnuts!
hallie on July 23, 2013 at 9:43 am

Is there a site plan for the finished project anywhere?
eric on July 23, 2013 at 9:55 am

Here’s the plan: http://www.greengirlpdx.com/Newsletters/2012-11/Project%20Portfolio%20PCC.pdf