Swales are rather like below ground ditches filled with a medium that absorbs and moves water to lesser or greater extent, depositing some, all, or none of it as it travels along a specific distance.

A swale is a method of harvesting water, and they work whereever you live in the world. This is the first video of a three part series on swales. With thanks to Geoff Lawton, ...

DESIGNING SWALES - Geoff Lawton visits The Weedy Garden - Swales Part Two. Posted: December 29, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. If you have watched part one of this series, you would have a ...

Grassed swales are the cheapest alternative that meets government standards. A swale may look like a drainage ditch, but there should be more engineering involved in swale construction.

By installing wetland vegetation within these eroding swales, we will increase pollutant removal and improve conditions for maintenance activities. Plant installation is scheduled for May 2025.

The use of the Swales as a travel route spiked around 1849 as thousands of people made their way west in hopes of striking it rich. The trail crossed the last seven miles of the 40-mile desert, ...

Homeowners soon could become responsible for maintaining property that they don’t own under a law that primarily would affect homes in the Bonaventure area. City commissioners are considering a ...

Fernley’s historic swales could benefit from the area’s upcoming Victory Logistics Center. The historic swales are deep sand grooves created by thousands of emigrant wagons and oxen, including ...

Swales collect rainwater, mitigate flooding, filter out pollutants, sediment and toxins, prevent erosion and provide a natural area for storm runoff. They must be maintained to function properly.

Because in those fields at MacLennan Park at Cedar Crest are some historic ruts, or swales, made by the wheels of countless wagons traveling the Oregon Trail more than 150 years ago, Mauck said.