Ditches are a vanishing paradise

By Dave Marston Writers On The Range
Pamela Periconi

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Aug 24, 2022
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When she was a kid, the Highline Canal in Denver was Annette Choszczyk’s summer paradise.

“To us, it was river and a playground, complete with rope swings, swimming holes, crawdads and a trail alongside it that adults and kids could walk on to the foothills or far out into the prairie,” she said. They always called it a ditch, this 71-mile-long canal that carried water all over Denver.

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