The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needed to reconstruct the parking lot of Fort Campbell in Kentucky, but it had to comply with specific standards issued by the Department of Defense in October 2004. The Unified Facilities Criteria on LID is a storm water management strategy designed to maintain the hydrologic functions of a site and mitigate the adverse impacts of storm water runoff from Department of Defense construction projects. This required that any federal entity sponsoring development or redevelopment of 5,000 sq ft or more “… shall use site planning, design, construction and maintenance strategies for the property to maintain, or restore, to the maximum extent technically feasible, the predevelopment hydrology of the property with regard to the temperature, rate, volume and duration of flow.” Concerns about maintenance and longevity were therefore top of mind for the Corps.
In the spring of 2012, personnel from the Corps attended a presentation on the PaveDrain system and learned that it had solved storm water and parking problems for the Ford Motor Co. in Louisville, Ky. The Corps specified the system for the parking lot reconstruction.
The project was bid in the summer of 2012 and Pinnacle Design/Build Group of Cumming, Ga., was chosen for the installation, which commenced in the fall of 2014. After the base preparation was finished, the installation of the PaveDrain system took 12 days (4,400 sq ft per day) to complete, using the mat layout provided by PaveDrain LLC. A total of 52,769 sq ft of paving system were installed. Gavin Henry, project manager for Pinnacle, stated in a letter to PaveDrain, “The Fort Campbell, Ky., project was a success. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are very happy with the final product. I’m sure we will be getting more orders for the PaveDrain system in the near future.”
