Drainage Swale definition

Drainage Swale means any course of concentrated drainage water that has formed over time by either natural or man-made forces and where the flow of water is either at or near ground surface with no significant subsurface flow component. Also included in this definition are facilities used for the treatment and/or dispersal of roof runoff or other site drainage, such as vegetated swales and infiltration/percolation trenches or basins.
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Drainage Swale. An open channel that is usually grass lined that collects water from hard surfaces and allows it to percolate in the ground, reducing the amount of runoff leaving the roadway.
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Examples of Drainage Swale in a sentence

  • The Developer has constructed a Drainage Swale upon all or some of the Lots for the purpose of managing and containing the flow of excess surface water, if any, found upon such Lots from time to time.

  • In order to allow for the completion on the west embankment on and east of existing Runway 13-3 upon its closure, any and all work west of the Synthetic Bale Barriers protecting the Temporary Drainage Swale as shown on the DCP Volume II Concept Drawings, Airfield Storm Drainage Plans, Sheets C 07.02 and C 07.04 must be completed, in accordance with the Contract Documents, on or before June 1, 2013.

  • EASEMENTS ⚫ Section 9.1: Landscape Easement ⚫ Section 9.2: Easement for Drainage Swale and Pipe ⚫ Section 9.3: Bicycle Path Easements.

  • No alteration of the Drainage Swale shall be authorized and any damage to any Drainage Swale, whether caused by natural or human-induced phenomena, shall be repaired and the Drainage Swale returned to its former condition as soon as possible by the Owner(s) of the Lot(s) upon which the Drainage Swale is located.

  • No alteration of the Drainage Swale shall be authorized and any damage to any Drainage Swale, whether caused by natural or human induced phenomena, shall be repaired and the Drainage Swale returned to its former condition as soon as possible by the Owner(s) of the Lot(s) on which the Drainage Swale is located.

  • The Developer has constructed a Drainage Swale upon each Lot for the purpose of managing and containing the flow of excess surface water, if any, found upon such Lot from time to time.