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Vegetated Swale <br />Inspection and Maintenance Checklist Page 1 /2 <br />Property Address: 13889East 14th Street <br />Treatment Measure No.: <br />Inspector(s): <br />Property Owner: Eden Healthcare Township District <br />Date of Inspection: Type of Inspection: ^ Monthly ^ Pre-Wet Season <br />^ After heavy runoff ^ End of Wet Season <br />^ Other: <br />Defect Conditions When Maintenance Is Maintenance Comments (Describe maintenance Results Expected When Maintenance Is Performed <br /> Needed Needed? completed and if needed <br /> (Y/N) maintenance was not conducted, <br /> note when it will be done) <br />Sediment Sediment accumulating near When finished, Swale should be level from side to <br />Accumulati culverts and/or in channels builds side and drain freely toward outlet. There should <br />on on up to 75 millimeters (3 inches) at be no areas of standing water once inflow has <br />Vegetation any spot, or it covers vegetation ceased and sediment is disposed of properly. <br />Standing When water stands in the swaie There should be no areas of standing water once <br />Water between storms and does not inflow has ceased. Any of the following may <br /> drain within 5 days after rainfall. apply: sediment or trash blockages removed, <br /> improved grade from head to foot of swaie, <br /> removed clogged check dams, added <br /> underdrains or converted to a wet Swale. <br />Flow Flow spreader uneven or clogged Spreader leveled and cleaned so that flows are <br />spreader (if so that flows are no# uniformly spread evenly over entire Swale width. <br />any) distributed through entire Swale <br /> width. <br />Constant When small quantities of water No eroded, muddy channel on the bottom. A low- <br />Baseflow continually flow through the Swale, flow pea-gravel drain may be added the length of <br /> even when it has been dry for the swaie. <br /> weeks, and an eroded, muddy <br /> channel has formed in the swaie <br /> bottom. <br />Poor When planted vegetation is sparse Vegeta#ion coverage in more than 90% of the <br />Vegetation or bare or eroded patches occur swaie bottom. Determine why growth of planted <br />Coverage in more than 10% of the Swale vegetation is poor and correct that condition. Re- <br /> bottom. plant with plugs of vegetation from the upper <br /> slope: plant in the Swale bottom at 8-inch intervals, <br /> or re-seed into loosened, fertile soil. <br />