8 0 Vegetated Swales
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8.0 Vegetated Swales - North Carolina Department of ...
www.ncagr.gov8.0 Vegetated Swales 8.1 Overview of Practice Swales often serve to convey water around and away from businesses and residences. They are vegetated, open channels, most often lined with grass. From a water quality perspective, they are preferable to pipes because they allow more soil and water contact, as well as more opportunity for infiltration.
BMP 6.4.8: Vegetated Swale
www.stormwaterpa.orgBMP 6.4.8: Vegetated Swale parabolic channel, densely planted with a variety of trees, ... Vegetated swales are broad, shallow channels designed to slow runoff, promote infiltration, and filter ... should have a minimum infiltration rate of 0.5 …
Technical Guidelines for Stormwater Management (SWM ...
www.lsrca.on.ca- Direct impervious surface runoff to vegetated areas or to designed treatment areas - Encourage infiltration and soil storage of runoff through grass channels, soil compost amendment, increased topsoil depths, vegetated swales, raingardens, etc. - Plant vegetation that does not require irrigation beyond natural rainfall and that is