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 ...

The “swale on Yale” gathers and cleans stormwater runoff from Capitol Hill before it enters Lake Union. This voluntary retrofit of a storm system in a dense urban setting is the first of its kind in ...

Dear Carol: We have a swale which runs in a long arc through the backyards of all of the houses in this development. Grass covers it and in the spring or during rainy weather it fills with water and ...