Bioswales: Gallery

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  • Note the use of stone in the centre of the channel, with mulch cover on the side slopes. Mississauga Road, ON

  • Bioswale in High Point neighborhood, Seattle, WA
    Photo credit: USEPA

  • Streetside swale in Seattle

  • Bioswale in Brampton, ON

Linear bioretention cell designed to convey, treat and attenuate stormwater runoff. The engineered filter media soil mixture and vegetation slows the runoff water to allow sedimentation, filtration through the root zone, evapotranspiration, and infiltration into the underlying native soil.

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