Rain Gutter Swale

A swale is a natural gutter that catches your runoff water and directs it into a ditch.

Rain gutter swale.

Whether you need gutter replacement or you re constructing a new building we have the parts and gutters to fill every need. Most of our rain gutters can be cut to your specified length max 20 ft and custom shipped directly to the jobsite. A small swale drain is easy to create yourself. Swale drains are channels that you can build by digging and landscaping to have gentle slopes on the side.

Furthermore stormwater runoff that travels through your swales can be used as a groundwater recharge source. Likewise it s possible to have multiple swales on a single piece of land. By jeanne huber swales follow the contours around the base of a natural or created slope redirecting storm water and filtering runoff as it sinks into the soil instead of keeping it in one place like a rain garden. Plants suck up the water along a swale s gently sloping banks and sometimes down the center of the channel.

This allows running water to slope into it and soak away. You can have more than one ditch for a single swale. By raptor gutter guard 114 90 114. Swale drains are also used as a transport system that carries water into a draining point such as a dry well.

Where a swale is mostly a travel route for water a rain garden is a destination. A fast draining soil mix encourages water to sink in and promotes lush plant growth.