Repairs began Monday on the Salvation Ditch, which was shut off Saturday after a ditch walker spotted water pooling that turned out to be a small sinkhole, an official said. The sinkhole is located in ...

Ditches and canals are the underdog of the freshwater world. These human-made waterways are often forgotten, devalued, and ...

A big push is underway in Jackson County and Oregon to replace open-ditch irrigation canals with piping to reduce water loss through seepage and evaporation. The mission by irrigation districts to ...

That canal or ditch next to your back yard is not a convenient trash disposal system as a place to dump your lawn clippings, old tires, household trash, or debris from landscaping. That’s the message ...