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Grand Canal discussed as historic waterway and growing urban trail

5451844 · July 22, 2025
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A meeting speaker described Phoenix’s Grand Canal as an ancient Hohokam irrigation work revived by 19th‑century pioneers and noted the Grand Canalscape and Salt River Project network have turned the canal into a 23.6‑mile urban trail used for recreation.

Speaker 1, a meeting speaker, described the Grand Canal in Phoenix as both a historic waterway and a developing urban trail. The speaker said the canal was “originally built by the Hohokam over a thousand years ago and revived by pioneers in the 18 hundreds,” and added, “We're not only talking about water…

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