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Vegetated open channels were designed to convey, treat, and attenuate roof, road, and parking lot runoff from small drainage areas at York University. Vegetation in the grass swale slows the water to allow sedimentation, filtration through the soil and root zone, and infiltration into the underlying native soil.

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