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Recent Examples of acequiaThursday At 1pm, head to Mission San Juan for a free immersive agricultural tour and an acequia demonstration.—Megan Stringer, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024 With them, the melt is diverted to multiple acequias winding through the hills.—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 19 July 2023 Hundreds of small fish swim in the acequia, the irrigation canal.—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 28 Dec. 2022 Human artifacts dating more than 10,000 years have been found at Brackenridge, and an acequia was built there in the 1720s to irrigate crops at the Mission San Antonio de Valero.—Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021 In a good year, his acequia can water homes from spring through mid-October.—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2021
Effective water bars can prevent runoff from concentrating on these lines and causing trenches and gullies to form.
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CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
13 Aug. 2025
The volunteer firefighters were on the scene last week when Kearns got caught up in the flow of a gully filled with waist-deep water, before being swept into a drain pipe that goes below the street.
In 2003, Jay Levin shot Mark Drewes, who had been playing ding-dong-ditch and died of his injuries on his 16th birthday, according to the Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Network.
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
This season, the nearest neighboring fields across the ditch bordering my parents’ house at the farm are filled with sturdy stalks of sorghum.
This off-white cropped trench jacket is designed for easy layering and is nearly half off today.
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Jacqueline Tempera,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
The roads became thick with mud, the numbers in his Company were diminishing, and on a night in June the Company advanced to dig a further trench, only to retreat again immediately having not made a lick of progress—but not without suffering the fatality of his friend, Thomas.
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Alice Vernon
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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