1.   From Imperial Beach to Oceanside, drainage canals are being cleaned earlier and with extra attention.

2.   The farmers use an intricate system of drainage canals.

3.   As they neared a small drainage canal, the dogs took off running and started barking.

4.   A backhoe was scooping up muck to widen a drainage canal.

5.   He again fired his BB gun, and the bear again climbed down, but this time it escaped for good into a drainage canal.

6.   Or a third bear scurrying down a drainage canal after a wildlife officer chased him out of a tree.

7.   One toddler drowned in a drainage canal and another wandered into the path of an oncoming train.

8.   Over the years, ranchers and developers moved to the swamp and dug drainage canals.

9.   The farms, and the intricate network of drainage canals that lace them, now separate the swamp from the huge lake that feeds it.

10.   The men mount up and ride out a couple of miles, through small drainage canals, around hammocks, past the sabal palms that dot the plain.