Rutters Market Chooses Pervious Concrete

Hartman Concrete recently completed the parking area for a Rutter’s Farm Store located in Boiling Springs, PA.  This project consisted of approximately 7,300 SF of 8” thick pervious concrete pavement.

Because of the topography of the site, unique methods had to be employed to place and finish the pervious concrete.  In fact, according to Marty Hartman, general superintendent for Hartman Concrete, the largest challenge of this project was the numerous slopes and cross slopes designed into the parking lot and drive areas.  For example the previous entry drive features almost an 8% slope with a 3% cross slope.  Because of this, much of the sloping areas were placed by hand and compacted with a conventional weighted hand roller.  The larger areas, without cross slopes, were placed with formwork and a roller screed.

Prior to construction, the design engineer (LSC Design, Inc.) designed and detailed a thorough maintenance plan for the pervious pavement including vacuum sweeping every 6 months, prohibiting sand and anti skid materials from being used and recommending calcium chloride be used for any ice removal.  In addition, pressure washing on the slab was prohibited.

Since this was the first pervious project in the area, the township required several catch basins to be installed as redundant backup for the pavement.  Jeff Goss, Vice President of Hartman Concrete, has been to the site several times during heavy rain storms and wonders if the inside of the basins have ever been wet as the previous is working as designed. 

Remember -  Concrete, It Just Makes Cents!