But on the west side, the curb has cutouts to let stormwater into a 6-foot swale planted with native plants. Next to that is a 5-foot sidewalk made from the pervious concrete. The green treatment ...

As concrete replaces natural landscape ... to flooding and pollutants entering Biscayne Bay. Planted swales capture and slow stormwater runoff, but grass swales offer less filtering and ...

Dear Carol: We have a swale which runs in a long arc through ... Dear B.S.: Many construction projects have to take storm water into account. It has to go somewhere. When storm water isn't managed ...

The group points out the use of pervious concrete is among EPA's Best Management Practices for managing stormwater runoff, and eliminates the need for retention ponds, swales and other stormwater ...

A subsurface pipe will be placed below the swale to convey excess stormwater and naturally occurring groundwater. Structures within the swale will prevent it from overflowing. County designers ...

Though not yet fully operational, the system is designed to direct stormwater through a network of concrete catchment areas, engineered hillsides, and bioengineered swales. Once the swales fill up ...

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 ...

SEBASTIAN — When it rains heavily here, the city's more than 50 miles of swales and ditches are challenged to handle stormwater runoff, a problem City Manager Joe Griffin is determined to solve.

The Seminole County woman who plugged a stormwater drain pipe with concrete last spring causing months of flooding in her neighborhood told a magistrate this week she’ll have a new pipe in place ...

Once complete, all four swales in the area will treat a total of 190 million gallons of stormwater from 435 acres of Capitol Hill neighborhood streets and sidewalks annually. Using a diversion ...