[Talk-GB] Swales

[Chris Andrew]

Are these also known as 'balance tanks'?

Chris

On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 09:39 Andy Robinson, <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> How are folks mapping Swales?, that is manmade sustainable drainage
> channels that you typically find on new developments to enable water runoff
> to drain into the ground but usually with an overflow pipe system to enable
> water to go safely elsewhere in times of very heavy rain. A local housing
> estate in our village has a plethora of them and I had originally tagged
> them as natural=water, water=swale though in reality when they were first
> dug they had no water in them most of the time. Having walked around them
> yesterday I realise that have all be planted/colonised as reed beds so they
> might arguably be closer to a natural=wetland and wetland=reedbed, and I
> have changed tags to suite. However there are of course man made scrapes in
> the ground rather than natural and the tagging doesn’t reflect that they
> are swales, though I’ve added note=swale for now.
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> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/678368410
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> I note that on the wiki, water=swale redirects to waterway=ditch
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> Cheers
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> Andy
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