Environmentalists say the Moore administration has missed an opportunity to make progress toward reducing the runoff from roads and parking lots that floods communities and pollutes waterways
Such a common thing it is, and yet almost impossible to grasp in its scope – the acres of impervious surface in Baltimore and across the state of Maryland.
Roads, highways, bridges, sprawling parking lots, sidewalks, driveways. The State Highway Administration alone maintains more than 17,000 “lane miles” (road length multiplied by lanes), and that does not include state roads within the city…