Make sure it's long enough to detain water for about 10 minutes, which should be ample time to address your specific drainage ...

You can think of a swale like a French drain without a pipe. Dry creeks are long trenches of gravel or rocks placed at the bottom of slopes. The idea is that these rocks filter excess water into ...

Long tainted by stormwater runoff and more recently massive sewer spills, a decade-long effort is working to heal the city's wounded coastal waterways.