Hydrologic and Water Quality Benefits of Grass Swales for Managing Highway Runoff

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Hydrologic and Water Quality Benefits of Grass Swales for Managing Highway Runoff Posted: 08 Nov 2009 01:30 AM PST Due to growing awareness of non-point source pollution treatment, the performance of grass swales as a highway runoff treatment and the effect of including a grass filter strip pretreatment area adjacent to the swale were evaluated using a field-scale input/output study on a Maryland highway. Results of this comparison for 22 rainfall events over 1.5 [...]