Then, about 15 years ago, the city came to Mendez with a proposition: Let a team of civic engineers and landscape architects tear up the asphalt and replace it with a “green alley”: A smoothly ...

"We're coming up with a solution here to help limit the amount of water on top of the alley, but still store it and minimize the impact on our sewer system." The Green Alleys include underground ...

The village’s operations and maintenance plan for the green alley reconstruction notes that “over the lifetime of the permeable pavement system, there will be a need to clean any sediment ...