Swale & Rain Garden How To
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2014
- "Swales are Swell and So Are Rain Gardens" is Episode 7 the last in the series of instructional videos the Water Board has been posting on how we can be stewards of our watersheds - which starts at home. Make sure to keep in the loop for upcoming events showcasing these videos.
When rain hits hard surfaces, it runs off and is collected by the storm drain system and can end up polluting the water body it drains to. This video focuses on alternatives to directing water off your property through creating depressions in your landscape that slow the flow and often create habitat full of native flora and fauna.
A swale is a trench dug on contour, so it can hold water. A spoon drain is what you build with a small angle, to take the water away. It was a little confusing at the beginning, when the man said they were installing a swale, but it wasn't to capture water - more to collect it and move it away. That's actually called a spoon drain, not a swale. The difference is whether the trench is dug on contour (completely level) or on an angle. They can look virtually identical, but it's how you pivot the land, which alters their definition.
a rain garden recharges the groundwater...excellent
I love this! Great video. I’m creating a dry creek bed and a rain garden at the end of it. So excited.🌿✨
Doing dry creekbed swale draining into a low floodable pond. Fun-fun! Have a blast!
These swales can be designed in new subdivisions with roads and swales on contour. You can put walking paths parallel to the swles AND PLANT FRUIT TREES along the swales. There's a subdivision in CA that does this that's talked about by Geoff Lawton.
Geoff lawton
i like how she mentioned porous pavers...the water goes into the cracks and recharges ground water...beautiful
At a company I worked for, we got a very interesting car park. There is a big gravel installation to store water and seep it into ground below the parking deck. So far, in the first 10 years no water went down the storm drain.
Great work on Elmer Ave. Lucky folks. I'll be out on my own with a shovel and my wheel barrow. Hope you're right that "anyone can do this!" Yikes. Wish me luck.
If you haven't started yet, good luck!
If you're done, how did it go?
Great video, I am starting a rain garden project soon.
cool stuff.
Really helpful for people who suffer increasingly from drought.
Good idea....where do I find more details HOW TO?
Love it!
This is my upcoming project!
Great video!
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a swale is basicly a water retention ditch on contour.
Where can we get more info on the storm drain in.
More of a promotion of the idea than a how-to but still a cool video
Great information. One change I would like to see California Government incorporated into their water conversation design would be to PLANT EDIBLES and NOT just ornamentals. People cannot eat ornamentals. By incorporating FRUIT TREES, BERRY BUSHES, HERBS, and VEGETABLES one can achieve the same beneficial rain garden that is beautiful and productive. Plant food not lawns. Enjoy the bounty of your rain garden past the eyes to access fresh, healthy, organic produce just a few steps from one's kitchen. Not only is it convenient, we could reduce carbon pollution through the import of food, reduce the chemical pollution from mono farming, and we would know exactly where our food is harvested and the conditions under which it was grown.
+Anne McKenzie Great idea! If edibles are used in public places it could also help reduce hunger for those less fortunate. Add to it that the California government should use this system (and many other water retention systems - NOT super canals) to help the water stay where it falls instead of flowing away. It would still flow to where we ultimately want it but it would just take longer and be a more complete infiltration into the surrounding soils along the way, thus reducing our overall irrigation needs.
Agreed!!
They updated some things for LADWP and rebates. I looked over the sidewalk specifically and I think I saw no veggies but I’m gonna plant them anyways when I redesign this fall.
Planting food in an area designed to filter pollutants is a bad bad idea...
I have been replacing Eucalyptus trees and pine(although some varieties have edible pine nuts) trees on my property with olive and carob trees. Eucalyptus and pine are also major fire hazards while olive and carob are fire resistant. Pomegranate bushes and macadamia trees also thrive in my area of San Diego county. Olive, carob, pomegranate and macadamia are all drought resistant and fire resistant. I am also seeing that olive are a deterrent to gophers at my place. Eucalyptus are also very dangerous due to the sudden falling of branches which have killed many people.
Can you ever have too much water in a swale?
What happens to local water quality when a swale is bulldozed deeper, flooded, and a marina built around it with an asphalt roadway contributing runoff for 60+ years?
Need help building swales.
How's the best way to decide the best location for your swales I live on a farm.
across the contour of the rise to create a dispersion field
Look into key line design
omg that music
I'm seeing a trend with all the people in this video. There's something off about them.
Cool video. The audio is way too loud though
pro tip: turn on captions and mute the audio
Why you stop making videos?
Slow the flow, make more dough.
this was not a how to video
Search Geoff Lawton
Interesting how she just slid in the info about the upgraded storm water drain system to help with the flow of water. I’m all for conservation, but be honest about what you are actually doing. None of the changes in that neighborhood would have made any real difference had the city not fixed the actual problem - an out-of-date and/or damaged storm water system.
It is a great idea, but they don't tell us how to do it? what plants are good to plant in a swale. Just a typical government PR type video.
do all people from california act and look this smug?
Really boring😒
Useless video. City propaganda is all.
ok bilbo
dutch...your no expert
Its better than having all the water run off the landscape qnd flood your home
Says a Three Percenter! You are and/or you actively support domestic terrorists. Don't show that fascist garbage around here.