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"At first, this canyon known as
Water Canyon, might look like any ordinary Bryce Canyon kind of canyon.
It's not. From 1890-1892 Mormon Pioneers labored with picks and shovels to
carve an irrigation ditch from the East Fork of the Sevier River, through
the Paunsaugunt Plateau, into this canyon. Every year since its
completion in 1892 (except during the drought of 2002), this canal known
as the Tropic Ditch has supplied the communities of Tropic and Cannonville
with irrigation water."
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