Hello Mickey, Thanks for your kind attention and comment. I tried my best, although having a slow Internet connection, finding out any project carried out on the very large urban areas, paved by impermeable concretes / asphalts, by the said company; but I was not successful obtaining the required information, as you described; except on certain airport runways, which the surface areas involved are not that much large, in comparison to the urban areas, also I imagine the process for large areas could be very expensive. As such, digging dry wells on appropriate locations could be also a remedy, diverting surface water into. To be able to digest the subject matter properly, I sent the following email to the referenced company: A comment on my article made me writing to your good self. Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:22 AM To: EBwatersolutions@gmail.com Mr. Blair Smallbone, Co-founder/President,Earthbound Innovations LLC, Dear Mr. Blair, The President, First of all greetings to you all at these auspicious times of your festivities. A comment on my article made me writing to your good self, as follows: Background: The following is a previous article of mine, among the few others, addressing the impermeable asphalts and concretes problems on the surface water: "https://www.linkedin.com/groups/855897/855897-5857828372716994560 Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie Freelancer Consultant The worldwide vastness of the existing impermeable concretes and asphalts on the urban areas justifies research on how the existing infrastructures could be converted in situ, into permeable ones. Nowadays, alleviating the severe environmental consequences of the unwise-combined sewer systems for filthy sewage and pollute runoff; out of once almost pure and clean rainwater, it is recommended that permeable concrete and asphalt to be applied on the urban areas. How about the existing vast infrastructures?The worldwide vastness of the existing impermeable concretes and asphalts on the urban areas justifies researching on how the existing infrastructures could be converted in situ, into permeable ones; perhaps such a research is already underway, for which couldn’t find any information on the web. Best regards, Mashallah" And just recently I published the following article, on the same subject: "https://thewaternetwork.com/quick-post-TFp/list?start=YxMoMdVLQEq5-zmsU4pyvg Don't Look For Culprits Causing Urban Flooding, All of Us Are Responsible, in One Way, or the Other. By: Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie Today's international news were disappointing: Urban flooding in the USA, the United Kingdom and Brazil, and only God knows where else, not reported. There are for sure means and ways for alleviating the urban flooding and its causes, for which one can search throughout the Internet wealth of information; needless highlighting in this short article. There are many technology maladies which intensifies urban flooding ( el nino flooding is an exception and a separate issue,) a few of them are discussed earlier, on Linked-In, as follows, at the end of this write-up. But back to the captioned title, all of us are responsible for the damage caused to fellow citizens, in different means and ways. For example, those propagated paving courtyards, pavements, streets, etc. with impermeable concretes, stone slabs, impervious asphalts, etc., blocking the infiltration of the precious rain drops, on the spot into the soil. When these practices propagated, the consequences were ignorantly overlooked by their developers. On the other side of the game, where these practices were blindly and ignorantly imitated by others; such followers are also responsible to certain extents. A few Technology Maladies Spread out on the Planet Earth: Out of the Technology Malady, a few are noted here under; and one may enrich the links, however, the global warming so evident is not included therein: Desperate People in China Are Buying Cans of Air Imported From Canada https://www.linkedin.com/groups/855897/855897-6083653124852064259 It will be fair enough compensating for the ancestors' inevitable ignorance; moving to remedy. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/855897/855897-6065026047114567683 OPTING FOR RAINWATER HARVESTING MEASURES IS NOT ONLY REQUIRED FOR SAVING WATER IN DRY CLIMATES, BUT ALSO FOR SAFEGUARDING THE ENVIRONMENTS, IN BOTH THE DRY AND WET CLIMATES AND SAVING ON EXPENDITURES. IT IS THE EARTH DAY AGAIN TODAY, ON Wednesday, April 22. A PRACTICE TO BE APPLIED ON THE EARTH DAY AS A GRATITUDE AND THE COMPENSATION FOR TECHNOLOGY-CAUSED MALADIES; NAMELY MITIGATING THE HARSH EFFECT OF THE EXISTING IMPERVIOUS PAVEMENTS VIA DRY-WELL CONSTRUCTION, WHEREVER APPROPRIATE AND TECHNICALLY JUSTIFIED. COULD RICH PHILANTHROPISTS HELP IN CURING A WIDESPREAD TECHNOLOGY MALADY, SUCH AS THE APPLICATION OF IMPERVIOUS PAVEMENT MATERIALS ON THE URBAN AND PREMISES AREAS, WORLDWIDE? THE APPLICATION OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES IS NOT AN EXCEPTION, LIKE ANY OTHER PHENOMENON WHICH HAS A PRO AND CON CONSEQUENCES; BUT IT IS ONLY AFTER QUITE A LONG TIME THAT THE REAL ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES ARE REALLY REVEALED. Best regards, Mashallah" To this article, I had the following kind comment: " Mickey Walsh , 15 hours agoAlthough I am a bit involved there is an infiltration technology which establishes equalized surface groundwater (not runoff) hydrostatic pressure. Water can be rapidly infiltrated into soil up to 24 M depth. this can be used with or without permeable concrete surfaces. Water can also be collected and harvested with this system as well. The company is Earthbound technologies and they arewww.earthboundinnovations.com " Receiving this comment, made me extremely happy; writing this email right away, asking for the true story, backed up by illustrated presentations, whenre your technology had been applied on the impervious asphalts / concretes, on roads, streets, pavements, etc. Best regards, Mashallah ==== And now waiting for a reply. Best regards and a very happy New Year, Mashallah
Published by Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie, Self Employed Independent Peoplesoft Consultant - Freelancer Consultant
Thanks for your kind attention and comment. I tried my best, although having a slow Internet connection, finding out any project carried out on the very large urban areas, paved by impermeable concretes / asphalts, by the said company; but I was not successful obtaining the required information, as you described; except on certain airport runways, which the surface areas involved are not that much large, in comparison to the urban areas, also I imagine the process for large areas could be very expensive. As such, digging dry wells on appropriate locations could be also a remedy, diverting surface water into. To be able to digest the subject matter properly, I sent the following email to the referenced company:
| A comment on my article made me writing to your good self. |
| Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie | Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:22 AM | |
| To: EBwatersolutions@gmail.com | ||
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Best regards and a very happy New Year,
Mashallah