Pat Hermés loves a garden project. None, she says, has been more fun than the iris swale she created. A swale, a pretty word for ditch or trench, carries and slows runoff water, improving its ...

Q: We have a lot in the Oakland hills that was chosen years ago to be the site for an open concrete drainage swale that carries the runoff from a catch basin at the end of our private lane. We share ...

Q: Recently, my neighbor made a swale through his land to gather rainwater or melting snow from his land. The water used to spread out and some of it would go in other directions, but now, the swale ...

LITTLE ROCK — A Little Rock woman who needed the help of firefighters last July to escape her flooded home has sued the city for ignoring a collapsing drainage culvert under her Heights home. The ...

A consultant has issued preliminary recommendations on dealing with Bethlehem’s Stefko Boulevard drainage swale problem, with cost estimates ranging from $297,000 to $923,000. In the three ...

City staff made a presentation May 11 pointing to ongoing stormwater projects, as well as increased swale and maintenance ...

Driveway surfaces like concrete and asphalt don't absorb water, so rainwater runoff along the edges can accumulate quickly and lead to issues like pooling, erosion, and flooding. However, you don't ...

AJAX — A pair of bio-swales is going to be added along Pickering Beach, replacing two steel culverts that discharge untreated stormwater directly into Lake Ontario. The swales will help filter out ...