C. H. Tompkins, president of the New York-based Idaho Mining and Irrigation Co., and his engineer, A. D. Foote, first surveyed the Boise Valley for a canal in 1883, according to the Idaho State ...

The New York Canal — named for its investors from the ... above thousands of homes in the city’s southeast, southwest and Boise Bench regions. Improvements to the canal will reduce seepage ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Boise Project Board of Control began diverting water into the New York Canal on Wednesday, March 22, in order to start filling Lake Lowell. The canal diversion started earlier ...

BOISE — An urban stretch of the New York Canal in Idaho’s Ada County will be relined at a much faster pace. Boise Project Board of Control staff now aim to complete one-mile segments per year ...

Lining New York Canal’s urban upper reach at a faster pace makes the project bigger, so a more in-depth public review is needed. The Boise Project Board of Control has lined small segments ...

a waterway splits from the Boise River and travels southwest, beside busy streets, neighborhoods and shopping centers. The New York Canal — as it’s been called since the 19th century — moseys through ...