Urban flooding, aging infrastructure, and polluted waterways are symptoms of a broken stormwater system—one that wasn’t built for the climate challenges cities face today. At AquiPor, we’re changing that.
Every year in the U.S., more than 10 trillion gallons of polluted stormwater runoff flood into clean waterways. With urban areas expanding and impervious surfaces like concrete and asphalt covering the landscape, rainwater has nowhere to go. It overwhelms drainage systems, picks up pollutants, and flows directly into rivers, streams, and oceans—harming ecosystems and public health in the process.
We believe the ground beneath our feet should be part of the solution.
Our Technology: Concrete That Does More Than Just Pave
AquiPor’s next-generation porous concrete is engineered to manage stormwater where it falls. Unlike traditional paving materials, our concrete allows water to flow through it—filtering out harmful pollutants and helping to reduce runoff at the source.
This isn't just about permeability. It’s about performance. Our material filters stormwater and supports natural aquifer recharge, helping cities manage water locally and more sustainably.
On top of that, we’re tackling the climate impact of infrastructure. Our concrete is produced with a low-carbon, partial net-zero aggregate, reducing the CO₂ footprint typically associated with concrete manufacturing.
A Distributed Approach to Water Management
In addition to our surface technology, we’ve developed a patented distributed water system that reinfiltrates filtered water safely back into the ground. This decentralized approach alleviates pressure on municipal systems, reduces flood risk, and restores the natural water cycle in urban environments.
Why It Matters
Cities can no longer afford to treat rainwater as waste. With increasingly extreme weather, infrastructure must evolve. By integrating smart, sustainable stormwater solutions into everyday urban surfaces, we’re helping build climate-resilient cities—street by street, block by block.
Discover how AquiPor’s sustainable concrete technology can help your community manage stormwater, reduce flooding, and protect clean water.
When LA turned it’s river into a storm drain Starting in the 1930’s Los Angeles turned the LA river into a big storm drain while facing a strange paradox. They were running out of water and trying to stop flooding in the city. This is when they turned the river into the biggest storm drain ever conceived, and started importing water from places like the Colorado River.
Los Angeles is now working with the LA Riverkeeper to launch a program called One Water, which is a “forward-thinking sustainability strategy that views all water—whether it’s groundwater, stormwater, wastewater, or drinking water—as a single, interconnected resource.” (Read more here about One Water)
This is the kind of opportunity that AquiPor wants to be a part of, helping cities create porous corridors of AquiPor concrete where flooding and stormwater pollution could be reduced, allowing cities like LA to collect that water instead of just dumping it into the ocean, unused and untreated.
This is the mission of AquiPor, to bring these kind of solutions to the world. Please check out what we’re doing and consider becoming an investor.
On Tuesday, February 4th AquiPor had a live presentation and Q&A about our new AquiFlow aggregate product.
In the past we were trying to develop our porous concrete technology as a standalone precast product - requiring new industry standards and manufacturing processes. We found that our pure product interacts very well with the materials in normal concrete.
So in July we began testing our technology as an engineered aggregate / additive that goes into normal concrete mixes for both precast and cast-in-place concrete. We were successful.
Through in-house validation and testing, we’ve shown that our technology - when crushed and sized as a lightweight aggregate - turns traditional concrete into high-performance permeable concrete, capable of infiltrating high rates of stormwater. In certain proportions it also improves the compressive strength of concrete, and improves its durability in the presence of rapid freeze-thaw. There are also signs that our porous aggregate exhibits pozzolanic behavior in concrete (self-healing, Roman concrete properties) and we plan to conduct independent testing to verify.
So we created AquiFlow - a proprietary aggregate from AquiPor for use as an additive to concrete. Unlike other concrete ingredients, AquiFlow has some unique properties that make it a revolutionary change in concrete production. It allows concrete to act as a water filter - a porous material that can mitigate the effects of stormwater flooding and pollution, without a reduction in compressive strength.
This is huge for the industry. Concrete is the second most used substance on earth behind water, and is estimated to produce 8% of the total carbon footprint in the world. AquiFlow aggregate is a near net-zero additive, so replacing traditional ingredients with AquiFlow reduces that footprint, while simultaneously creating a porous, stronger than regular concrete and more climate resilient product.
Not only is AquiFlow all these things, it replaces other less effective concrete aggregates that are more expensive, do less, and are becoming harder to find. AquiPor’s tech will eventually reduce costs, be more eco-friendly AND help stop stormwater flooding and pollution that is only increasing as the climate changes and extreme weather continues to increase in size and scope.
This is why AquiPor Technologies is so rare in the world of material technologies. It checks off two huge needs of a multi-billion dollar industry by being eco-friendly and easily accessible and adoptable to the industry as it is right now.
AquiFlow is a proprietary aggregate that AquiPor has developed for use as an additive to concrete. Unlike other concrete ingredients, AquiFlow has some unique properties that make it a revolutionary change in concrete production. It allows concrete to act as a water filter - a porous material that can mitigate the effects of stormwater flooding and pollution, without a reduction in compressive strength.
This is huge for the industry. Concrete is the second most used substance on earth behind water, and is estimated to produce 8% of the total carbon footprint in the world. AquiFlow aggregate is a near net-zero additive, so replacing traditional ingredients with AquiFlow reduces that footprint, while simultaneously creating a porous, stronger than regular concrete and more climate resilient product.
Not only is AquiFlow all these things, it replaces other less effective concrete aggregates that are more expensive, do less, and are becoming harder to find. AquiPor’s tech will eventually reduce costs, be more eco-friendly AND help stop stormwater flooding and pollution that is only increasing as the climate changes and extreme weather continues to increase in size and scope.
This is why AquiPor Technologies is so rare in the world of material technologies. It checks off two huge needs of a multi-billion dollar industry by being eco-friendly and easily accessible and adoptable to the industry as it is right now.
Concrete hasn’t changed much since the times of the Romans, but we believe we have Concrete 2.0, and like all other inventions that shifted the paradigm, it just needs a spark to ignite the world over.
We need your help to build the capacity to create, install, test and sell this truly remarkable technology. Which is why we have a crowdfunding campaign with our partners at StartEngine, allowing everyday investors like you to become a part of a revolutionary technology for one of the biggest industries in the world.
Like a lot of startups Aquipor is built upon its failures. We had thousands of concrete mix recipes fail to be good enough to move forward with. But with the amazing support of our investors we were able to make what we have today; a project ready permeable concrete mix that uses recycled industrial materials, takes less carbon emissions to produce, and helps cities to filter contaminants in stormwater and send that water to refill aquifers
Invest today in our hard won technology at StartEngine.com/Aquipor
We have rights to a new patent - and it’s a big deal, see why
Our New Distributed Water System Patent Will Be A Pillar Of AquiPor Technologies
Water loves to flow, clean water, polluted water, it has to go somewhere. Unfortunately, too much polluted water is ending up in our waterways. We can however, give gravity and nature a helping hand by being good stewards of our wastewater. Which is why here at AquiPor we’re really excited to announce our latest patent for a distributed water system.
This is a big idea, and it takes a little bit to really flush out all the details, so we’ll start here with highest level overview, and as we move forward we’re going to break this down deeper as we go.
This is going to sound almost ridiculous how basic the idea sounds - sewer pipes live everywhere, you’re probably only a few yards from some sewer pipe going to the street, then going to treatment plant, or worse yet, going to your community's waterways!
These pipes by design have a much larger diameter than they would almost ever need to run this water to its destination, and this is primarily for air flow purposes. So our technology group patented an idea - let’s run small hoses that use less than 5% of the area of the pipe that can flow back and forth from the water treatment plant (or wherever we want really) and control, maintain and properly distribute water more efficiently.
So say instead of just cleaning water and dumping it back into your local river, we can run that water back up towards the aquifer and allow it return to nature there? Thus avoiding flooding in rain events, controling water means a level of efficiency that can help cities save millions of dollars and gallons of water, both of which you want to use for your community.
This is the fundamental idea of our new patent. If you’re as excited about this, understand technical literature, or have some time on your hand, you can read the patent here:
Next time we’ll connect current AquiPor tech with this new tech and explain how they work symbiotically, and how our green concrete is just the tip of the engineering spear of AquiPor!
While so-called climate experts wring their hands about fossil fuel vs. EV powered vehicles, it turns out that the biggest climate threat from vehicles comes from their tires.
According to a recent report, 78% percent of the microplastics in oceans come from synthetic tire rubber, all by way of stormwater runoff. Those microplastics end up in marine life, and ultimately end up in the seafood that humans consume.
Tire rubber contains more than 400 chemicals and compounds, many of them carcinogenic, and research is only beginning to show how widespread the problems from tire dust may be.
“Tire wear particles” are emitted continually as vehicles travel and they range in size from visible pieces of rubber or plastic to microparticles. It is estimated that tires generate 6 million tons of particles a year, of which 200,000 tons end up in oceans.
The silver lining is that scientists studying the pollutants in stormwater runoff have found that green infrastructure solutions such as rain gardens could prevent more than 90 percent of tire particulates from entering our waterways.
AquiPor’s technology is being developed to accomplish the same thing, but at a much larger scale, by capturing and filtering runoff through our permeable system right within the urban landscape.
As we begin our water quality and filtration testing of our permeable concrete, we’ll keep you close to these developments!
CEO Greg Johnson and product engineer Josh Chastek talk about progress made on the tech front of AquiPor. They also talk about how our concrete tech acts as a filter, and what that means for cities that implement it.
Did you know that AquiPor is taking investments to increase production and grow?
Check out what we’re doing at StartEngine.com/Aquipor
AquiPor was recently featured on The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation on CBS! Hosted by Mo Rocca, Innovation Nation airs weekly and it’s a show that celebrates innovators, forward-looking visionaries, and historic pioneers. To say that we were thrilled to be featured on the show would be a massive understatement.
The CBS film crew visited us in Spokane and we had the chance to show them our pilot manufacturing plant and the technologies that we’ve been working so hard on to develop behind the scenes. Fun fact: We have now developed four proprietary versions of permeable concrete technology, ranging from expensive and hard to manufacture to very economic and easy to manufacture. They cover this and much more in our short segment.
We were grateful for the opportunity and glad there are shows like Innovation Nation that highlight human ingenuity and good things happening in the world. We hope you enjoy it!
If you’ve been following AquiPor for even a short amount of time, you know that we are developing a new type of permeable concrete that would help alleviate stormwater pollution in cities, and we’re really excited about that. It’s not every day you invent a technology that could not only make life better for people in cities but can also directly help make our communities more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
In short, our permeable concrete can help ease the pressure on already overused sewage systems and reduce pollution in the environment by providing a better way to handle rainwater and snow runoff. Instead of allowing polluted stormwater to run off of paved surfaces and into storm drains, our permeable pavers will allow this water to flow down through the material and into subsurface layers before naturally recharging groundwater.
There are many applications for our permeable concrete, and we thought it would be fun to share some ideas we have that you might not have thought of. Here are 5 possible applications of our permeable concrete:
1. Swimming pools: Not the actual swimming pools, that would be kind of silly to have porous material in your pool, but imagine that you have permeable pavers surrounding the pool. Excess water gets drained from around the pool, making it a safer place for your kids. Now, instead of yelling at your kids to “stop running around the pool!”, you can yell “kids, run and get me another beer!”. Honestly though, having less water around makes it less slick and therefore a lot safer for those you love. Just imagine!
2. Parking lots: You may not even notice it, but those random grassy swales in retail and commercial parking lots are actually there to deal with stormwater runoff. Instead of bulky, space consuming swales or stormwater ponds, AquiPor permeable pavers can take their place to manage stormwater without taking up all that usable space! Btw, did you know that 5.5% of all developed land in the U.S. is made up of impervious parking lots?! This is a problem we know can be reversed!
3. Sidewalk Panels: There are millions of miles of sidewalks throughout the U.S. and almost all of them are impermeable. What better way to manage stormwater from the street than to direct it to permeable sidewalks and manage it right there?! Now of course, these systems need to be designed and engineered to be structurally sound and to prevent road settling but we’ve considered that too. Our “steady-state”, porous detention tanks go underneath our permeable sidewalk panels and regulate how fast stormwater goes back into the ground based on the natural hydrology of those soils. As part of a fully engineered design, we can literally turn neighborhoods into stormwater infiltration corridors. Neat huh?
4. Bike lanes and walking paths: As more and more cities embrace micro-mobility and pedestrian friendly neighborhoods, why not turn the designated bike lanes and pathways in cities into permeable surfaces? Any opportunity to transform impervious pavement into permeable surfaces not only helps with stormwater and flooding issues, but it’s also known that permeable paving can help eliminate urban heat island. Pedestrian friendly + stormwater management + elimination of urban heat island = WIN WIN WIN!
5. Driveways and residential patios: Using permeable pavers in a residential driveway and / or patio can help alleviate all manner of groundwater and stormwater runoff issues, while also safeguarding local water quality by protecting against the infiltration of pollutants. In cold climates, electric or hydronic heating systems in conjunction with a well-designed permeable paver system can not only eliminate snow and ice, but it can get that precipitation back into the ground naturally. Of course, these system designs cost more but it goes to show you what’s possible with permeable concrete pavers!
At AquiPor, we’re hard at work developing our technology to meet the standards necessary for each and every one of these applications. What else haven’t we thought of?! Get in touch with us and let us know!