External resources for swales
Dry swales
Below are links to several sites that address dry swales.
- Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia State University: Best Management Practice Fact Sheet 10: Dry Swale
- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality: Stormwater Design Specification No. 10: Dry Swales
- Credit Valley Conservation: Planning and Design Guide - Fact Sheet: Dry Swale
- North Carolina State University (Hunt et al.): NCSU Urban Waterways Factsheet: Designing Dry Swales for the Water Quality Event
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control: Enhanced Dry Swales
- Sustainable Technologies Evaluation program: Low Impact Development Stormwater Management Planning and Design Guide - Dry Swales
- Greenville County: Technical Specification for: WQ-08 Enhanced Dry Swales
- Idaho Transportation Department: Dry Swale
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Vegetated Swale
- City of Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Enhanced Swale
- Lake Superior Duluth Streams: Grassed Swales
Case studies for dry swales
- Winston, 2014: Low Impact Development in the Transportation Environment: Lessons Learned in North Carolina. This Powerpoint presentation presents a summary of lessons learned and recommendations to improve performance of dry and wet swales.
- Lake Superior Duluth Streams: Provides some photos of properly designed and constructed vegetated swales
- Houston Land Water Sustainability Forum: LID Case Studies Focus: Bioswales
- Convergent Water Technologies: Green Roadway Birnamwood Drive
- Contra Costa Clean Water Program
Links to Other Manuals
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