If the drainage in your yard is less than ... yourself the job of having to water them as often. Grassy swales are similar to shallow ditches or that man made creek bed mentioned above, but ...

Make a French drain for hidden drainage French drains ... It's easiest to think of a swale like a large ditch. It disperses water over a huge area, taking it away from the main lawn where your ...

SOMETIMES WE’LL GET LIKE, UH, SOME WATER BUILD UP ON THE IN THE DITCH ... swales are channels that run along roads, driveways, and parking lots and play a key role in the city's stormwater ...

The concrete ditch — which the city of San Diego calls a brow ditch and resident Purushotham Kotha calls a swale — runs east-west behind a cul-de-sac in the 7100 block (north end) of La Jolla ...

The swale, or what neighbors call “the ditch ... easements set aside for that purpose along with some existing drainage ditches. The problem appears to be that those drainage ditches have ...

Pictured are artist renderings of proposed improvements to swales near Davidson’s Restaurant in Lakewood. Swales are low-lying drainage ditches designed to manage water runoff. Submitted photos ...