Yelm Ditch is an abandoned
irrigation 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 f ...
near
Yelm in
Thurston County, Washington
Thurston County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 294,793. The county seat is Olympia, Washington, Olympia, the ...
. It was completed by the Yelm Irrigation Company at a cost of $100,000 on June 29, 1916.
At the time, Yelm had a population of a few hundred, and the Yelm Irrigation Project was "one of Western Washington's first irrigation districts", bringing water from the
Nisqually River
The Nisqually River is a river in west central Washington in the United States, approximately long. It drains part of the Cascade Range southeast of Tacoma, including the southern slope of Mount Rainier, and empties into the southern end of ...
to irrigate farms on the
Yelm Prairie.
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See also
* Centralia Canal
* Elbow Lake (Thurston County, Washington)
*List of canals in the United States
The following is a list of canals in the United States:
Transportation canals in operation
This list includes active canals and artificial waterways that are maintained for use by boats. Although some abandoned canals and drainage canals have s ...
References
Further reading
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1916 establishments in Washington (state)
Canals in Washington (state)
Buildings and structures in Thurston County, Washington
Canals opened in 1929
Geography of Washington (state)
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