Taking the LID facilities of sponge city as the research object, the evolution of physical and chemical properties of fillers used in the LID facilities after long-term exposure to rainfall runoff is studied, the decay process and mechanism of facility operation efficiency is revealed, and the reasonable service life is discussed. This study reviews the progress and deficiencies of related research at home and abroad from aspects of the influence of filler physical and chemical properties on water infiltration and pollutant purification capability, infiltration performance changes and pollutant adsorption saturation, decay process of facility operation efficiency and its service life. The results show that the existing researches mostly focus on the structure, effect and influence mechanism of such measures. There is a lack of systematic research of filler physical and chemical properties, infiltration performance changes and pollutant adsorption saturation. Also, there are few reports on the phased and dynamic decay process of facility operation efficiency, and the mechanism that restricts the service life of such facilities is unclear, which affects the reasonable use of these concentrated infiltration measures. We suggest that future studies should focus on the following three aspects: firstly, to clarify the dynamic evolution of filler physical and chemical properties during the concentrated infiltration of rainfall runoff in sponge cities, and to explore new methods of water volume reduction and pollutant purification by the LID facilities; secondly, to reveal the changes of the infiltration performance and pollutant adsorption capacity of fillers with the running time, and to explore the intrinsic mechanism and driving factors of clogging and adsorption saturation of different fillers from the aspects of water quality and materials of the rainfall runoff; finally, to clarify the operation efficiency decay mechanism of LID facilities, and to establish a method for evaluating the efficiency decay process, so as to analyze and determine the reasonable service life of the LID facilities.