[4] Nearly a century later in the late 1990s in an attempt to bring "spark" to the area the idea began to once again gain support, a canal was built and opened on July 2, 1999.

[4] The canal was funded after voters in the city approved a temporary one-cent sales tax increase as part of the Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPS).

[1] The canal is currently one mile long and underwent improvements in 2004 and again in 2013, it is maintained by the Oklahoma City Parks and Recreation Department.

[6][7] On September 30, 2018, Wesley Seeley was walking along the canal when he leaned on a lighting fixture, not knowing that it was loose.

Seely attempted to pull himself out of the canal by grabbing the exposed electrical wires from the fixture, causing him to get shocked.