An elongated depression in the landscape that is seasonally wet or marshy, is usually heavily vegetated with marsh grasses and is normally without flowing water
a depression, valley, or undulation on a course Example: "My tee shot was right down the middle of the fairway but it disappeared from sight, so I figured it made it down into the swale "
a depression, valley, or low portion of undulation on a course Example: My tee shot was right down the middle of the fairway but it disappeared from sight, so I figured it made it down into the swale
a channel or a sloped surface that directs the flow of storm water runoff Swales can be vegetated, lined with vegetation that slows and filters flows when depths are shallower than the vegetative height, or paved
-A linear level-floored open depression excavated by wind or formed by the build-up of two adjacent ridges Typically associated with the depression between two adjacent sand dunes
(a) A low-lying portion of land, below the general elevation of the surroundings (b) A natural ditch or long, shallow depression through which accumulated water from adjacent watersheds drains to lower areas