A small portion remains and is used as a drainage canal.

He raced down to a dock on the edge of a drainage canal.

Many drainage canals were constructed through the land beginning in 1732.

She was lying on the bank of a drainage canal, nude.

Z14 I looked down into a drainage canal to see the motor-bike better.

Many of them have been linked by irrigation and drainage canals.

Also there were some lagoon type areas and drainage canals.

Both of these were behind a small drainage canal that ran east-west.

He was on a grassy flat next to some manner of drainage canal.

Stage 2: The area is drained using pumps and drainage canals.

Workers late this month began clearing rubble and cleaning drainage canals.

Many houses are surrounded by the drainage canals and accessible only over a small bridge.

Sturdy new gates stand at the mouths of the city's three major drainage canals.

Another concern is a new system of pumps and floodgates on three drainage canals.

Police say the man was swept into a drainage canal and his body was found several blocks away.

New flood barriers and drainage canals are being built.

We've been trying to dig a drainage canal.

The water well on my property went dry because a drainage canal had been dug near my home.

Most of the mangroves are concentrated either along the bay edge or on the drainage canals.

We left the car close to the drainage canal, and we started birdwatching.

Veterans Boulevard was laid out alongside a drainage canal, and became a commercial center of the region.

Next, the alternate plan to build gates at the mouths of city drainage canals was rejected.

To make the soil usable it had to be further drained by a network of drainage canals.

The locomotive was derailed, and fell into the drainage canal running beside the road.

There are two restaurants and a small grocery store opposite the drainage canal 100m past the trail turn at distance post 090.