The driveway was covered with concrete paving.
They had to break up the paving to lay a new gas line.
Recent Examples on the WebOver time, the landscaping planters decorating the pool deck had also become weighed down with more filling and paving than originally designed, increasing the weight load on the slab, according to the presentation.—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024 Design elements include rainwater capture, native and climate-appropriate plants, plants for habitat, efficient irrigation, permeable paving and the utilization of compost and mulch.—Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024 While the city is not adding projects and costs, crews are expediting projects that have already been budgeted, such as art displays, cleanup efforts on public grounds, road and sidewalk paving, said John Roach, spokesman for Mayor Mike Duggan.—Detroit Free Press, 21 Feb. 2024 Archaeologists in Italy began excavating the center of the Piazza San Marco to restore the well-trodden paving stones, the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Municipality of Venice and the Lagoon said in a Feb. 19 Facebook post.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024 In later years, residential driveway paving was added along with paving of streets and highways.—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024 Two lanes will shut down during the day Saturday between 59th Street and Watt Avenue to allow crews to complete paving work in the median.—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024 City crews already handle pothole repairs and some smaller paving jobs, but Bezak is talking about adding a crew that could do overlay work.—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2023 Brick paving generally fares better around trees than concrete because roots can break concrete and ruin it while bricks that lift can be taken out and redone.—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
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