bioswale
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bioswales
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Liou and her gardener helped Lee install it and build a bioswale to catch rainwater, using stones from Valley Builders Supply and some larger rocks from Bourget Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Plans are brewing for a bioswale along South 223rd Street.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
Outside, a planted channel called a bioswale was designed to filter polluted storm water that gushes from a downspout on the bridge to a nearby lake where salmon swim.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2020
A subterranean bioswale will filter silt and pollutants from rainwater.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2015
At the front of the school, there’s a bioswale, or what the design team calls a “rain garden.”
From Slate ● Dec. 25, 2014
A better solution, she says, is to build rain gardens and bioswales into cities—sunken areas filled with plants that are designed to absorb excess water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The bioswales are designed to collect rainwater so it soaks deep in the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
The Corps has contracts with Parks and other city agencies for certain jobs, like watering trees, installing signs, boarding up derelict houses and maintaining “green stormwater infrastructure,” like the rain gardens also known as bioswales.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
Cities can also incorporate more green infrastructure, such as green roofs and bioswales to absorb stormwater and reduce the load on wastewater systems.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2021
There is a plan for upgrading storm water and sewage systems, and efforts to expand bioswales — plantings along streets that collect water — and porous surfaces.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
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