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
• River Link: Enhanced 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

See section on Stormwater manuals