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The Riverside Canal is an
irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has bee ...
canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface ...
in El Paso County beginning southeast of
El Paso, Texas El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...
. The canal acquires water from the Riverside Diversion Dam on the
Rio Grande The Rio Grande ( or ) in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico (), also known as Tó Ba'áadi in Navajo language, Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the Southwestern United States a ...
southeast of El Paso. The canal is managed by the US Bureau of Reclamation. The canal extends for with a capacity of 900 cubic feet per second. Water from the canal irrigates about 39,000 acres (160 km2). The canal and diversion dam is the southernmost system on an irrigation project extending along the Rio Grande in New Mexico and Texas. The canal supplies a canal network extending throughout the Upper Rio Grande Valley.


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American Canal The American Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Rio Grande from the American Diversion Dam at the Texas–New Mexico–Mexico border, northwest of downtown El P ...
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Franklin Canal (Texas) The Franklin Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas. The canal acquires water from the Rio Grande via the American Canal. The canal is long with a capacity of . The Franklin Irrigation Company comple ...
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Texas Irrigation Canals Texas has many irrigation canals with the majority of large canal networks in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast, though smaller systems are located throughout the state. Canals provid ...
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United States Bureau of Reclamation The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operatio ...


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Rio Grande Project
US Bureau of Reclamation website Canals in Texas Irrigation canals Transportation buildings and structures in El Paso County, Texas United States Bureau of Reclamation {{Texas-struct-stub