CAPE CHARLES, Va. — Several thousand dollars have been spent to improve Central Park in Cape Charles, specifically a drainage swale near the park's Peach St. entrance. The money was raised by the ...

Pat Hermés loves a garden project. None, she says, has been more fun than the iris swale she created. A swale, a pretty word for ditch or trench, carries and slows runoff water, improving its ...

Rebuilding a drainage swale in the original Frost Hollow subdivision in Forks Township could cost as much as $797,000, according to a contract approved by township supervisors Thursday. Township ...

The Lehman Sanctuary along Jackson Road in Lehman Township already includes a prairie grass meadow, seen in the background, to help protect the forest and wetlands below. Thanks to an education grant, ...

SEBASTIAN — When it rains heavily here, the city's more than 50 miles of swales and ditches are challenged to handle stormwater runoff, a problem City Manager Joe Griffin is determined to solve. Yet ...

Q: We have a lot in the Oakland hills that was chosen years ago to be the site for an open concrete drainage swale that carries the runoff from a catch basin at the end of our private lane. We share ...

Q: Recently, my neighbor made a swale through his land to gather rainwater or melting snow from his land. The water used to spread out and some of it would go in other directions, but now, the swale ...

The owner of Hecktown Glass and Window has notified Lower Nazareth Township supervisors that he will not make further improvements to a drainage swale on his property until so advised by his attorney.

The current plan calls for the swale project to receive City Council approval in the fall. As for the creek bed and Somerset Lane retention basin work, that’s costlier, with a start date yet to be ...