After spending $3 million on its "quarter-round" project to improve drainage, Sebastian 1½ years ago began using city workers to clean out swales. So far the program has proved effective.

Highway swales are ditches that collect and carry runoff during rainstorms, providing modest pollutant removal. Traditional turfgrass linings in swales are not effective in areas with shallow ...

Dear Carol: We have a swale which runs in a long arc through the backyards of all of the houses in this development. Grass covers it and in the spring or during rainy weather it fills with water ...

Many farmers and gardeners have heard the term bio-swale, but the exact definition—much less how and why to build one—is elusive for most. To get right to the point, a bio-swale is basically a fancy ...