Drain channel alignment and installation apparatus

In drainage channel section used to form a drainage channel run having a predetermined slope where the run is comprised of two or more drainage channel sections in a trench and the drainage channel section is comprised of two spaced-apart walls with inner and outer wall surfaces, a bottom with inner and outer wall surfaces, the inner wall and bottom surfaces forming a U-shaped channel with a top opening and at least one end opening, the end opening of a first section made so as to operatively engage with the end opening of a second section the improvement which comprises drainage channel sections having at least one alignment anchor indentation on the outside surface of each wall near the end opening, placed so as to cooperate with an alignment anchor strap which comprises a body with two arms attached to the body the combination of the body and the arms essentially forming a U, the distance between the arms being slightly larger than the distance between the outside surface of the drainage channel walls, each arm having a spike attachment means for accepting, sliding over and attaching to a spike and at least two threaded channel holes with at least two channel indentation bolts therein, the threaded channel holes being positioned on the ar so that when the strap is placed over the channel top opening or under the channel bottom at the joint between two drainage channel sections with the arms extending over the outer surface of the channel walls, at least one threaded channel hole is positioned over at least one of the alignment anchor indentations of the first channel section and at least a second threaded channel hole is positioned over the alignment anchor indentation of the second channel section when two channel sections end openings are joined and aligned.