The Utah and Salt Lake Canal is an historic waterway in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
[1] The canal was financed wholly by Salt Lake County, and construction lasted from 1872[2] to 1881.
It was built "with only basic tools and contracted manual labor.
"[3] The settlement that became present-day Riverton was limited to the Jordan River bottoms until this canal was constructed.
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