A concrete structure for replenishing an aquifer and a method for
constructing the same is provided. The structure is comprised of a
pavement layer with surface drains that extend through the pavement layer
and into an aggregate leach field. The leach field includes leach lines
spanning the leach field. An aggregate drain extends from the leach field
into a sand lens. Precipitation which falls upon the structure thus flows
through the surface drain, absorbed into the aggregate leach field, and
transported to the aggregate drains by way of aggregate leach lines. The
water is then absorbed into the sand lens, ultimately replenishing the
aquifer. Existing conventional pavement structures are retrofitted by the
removal of a section of the pavement, and filling the same with porous
concrete.