There is a concrete gutter on the ground that surrounds the building and directs rain water down the hill.

Under a gravel border around the house, a concrete gutter channels the water into a 25,000-gallon cistern for irrigation.

Blood etc into concrete gutter.

A car driver hit him, flinging Aaron over the handlebars and headfirst to the ground,where his head struck the concrete gutter.

The man said that he had seen an execution chamber at Pul-i-Charkhi where a concrete gutter had been cut at the base of a flight of concrete stairs, so that victims' blood would be channeled away after they were shot.

Less well known is the fact that most of Los Angeles is built on a flood plain that still does not drain very well, even though most of the storm water runs into the concrete gutter of the Los Angeles River.

By the 1920s, the crack was wide enough to be mended with chains, and in 1957 the state legislature passed a $25,000 appropriation for a more elaborate weatherproofing, using 20 tons of fast-drying cement, plastic covering, and steel rods and turnbuckles, plus a concrete gutter to divert runoff from above.