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(SUNfoto by Bryant Furlow) Ruben Trujillo, Jr., 15, joined 33 other parciantes and enterprising freelance laborers who worked to clear the Acequia de la Cañada Ancha of cobble stones and sand March 21. The irrigation ditch is one of New Mexico’s oldest, dating to 1690, Mayordomo Carlos Vigil said. The acequia is one of several in the state that is implementing a water banking system to preserve ditch water rights when members do not irrigate.

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    Early the morning of March 21, a line of 34 parciantes of the Acequia de la Cañada Ancha made their way down a path, shovels in hand, snaking along a steep scarp to one of New Mexico’s oldest surviving…

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