By jeanne huber swales follow the contours around the base of a natural or created slope redirecting storm water and filtering runoff as it sinks into the soil instead of keeping it in one place like a rain garden.
Rain gutter swale.
Plants suck up the water along a swale s gently sloping banks and sometimes down the center of the channel.
Where a swale is mostly a travel route for water a rain garden is a destination.
A swale is a natural gutter that catches your runoff water and directs it into a ditch.
Whether you need gutter replacement or you re constructing a new building we have the parts and gutters to fill every need.
Swale drains are channels that you can build by digging and landscaping to have gentle slopes on the side.
A small swale drain is easy to create yourself.
A contractor grade diy gutter cover that fits any roof or gutter type 48ft to a box and fits a 5 gutter.
Runoff may flow into a rain garden from a swale or pipe or may simply run in from a sloping yard.
Most of our rain gutters can be cut to your specified length max 20 ft and custom shipped directly to the jobsite.
This allows running water to slope into it and soak away.
Swale drains are also used as a transport system that carries water into a draining point such as a dry well.
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Furthermore stormwater runoff that travels through your swales can be used as a groundwater recharge source.
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