Just upstream of the city of Vicenza receives water from the Leogra Timonchio (which descends from Mount Pasubio).

Verona and Vicenza built it to divert water away from Padua during the many political struggles of the time, as told in the ninth canto of Dante's "Paradiso".

[citation needed] The Brentella Canal originates from the Brenta River in Limena, where the flow is regulated by a hydraulic barrier (the "Colmelloni"), and joins the Bacchiglione just before Padua's airport.

[citation needed] To prevent flood damage in the second half of the nineteenth century the Scaricatore Canal was built.

It starts from Bassanello and carries the excess water from the Padua River (Channel Roncajette), near the town of Voltabarozzo.