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Irrigation Canals and Other Irrigation Works; Including the Flow of Water in Irrigation Canals and Open and Closed Channels Generally, with Tables Simplifying and Facilitating the Application of the Formulae of Kutter D'Arcy and Bazin

Irrigation Canals and Other Irrigation Works; Including the Flow of Water in Irrigation Canals and Open and Closed Channels Generally, with Tables Simplifying and Facilitating the Application of the Formulae of Kutter D'Arcy and Bazin


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...whole of the interior of which water will readily and rapidly reach an equal depth on the contour line. When one plot is covered the check is broken and the water admitted so as in the same way to cover the next plot. Figure 192 shows the contour checks beginning at the main canal, and compartments supplied by a ditch or distributary running almost parallel on each side of the compartments. Figure 193 shows a cross-section of main canal; Figure 194, a cross-section of distributary, and Figures 195 and 190, cross-sections showing checks. The ridges, checks or levees must have rounded crests and easy slopes, or else they interfere with the use of farming machinery, such as plows, headers, etc. By means of diagonal furrows and checks, remarkable results are obtained, even in very broken country. By their means it is claimed that, in Colorado one man can irrigate twenty-five acres per day. Where checks have not been used upon ground with an acute incline the water has soon worn dee) channels through it, utterly ruining it for agricultural purposes; or again, where the water has been allowed to flow too freely, the consequence has been that all the fertilizing elements of the soil have been washed away. In flooding, the aim is, therefore, to put no more water upon the land than it will, at once and equally, absorb or can part with without creating a current sufficient to carry off sediment. The neglect of these precautions has caused the abandonment of several settlements made in Utah before the art of Irrigation was properly understood. "Report of the Senate Committee on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. Both the depth and number of floodings are varied according to soil and crop. With a clay the waterings are light and frequent, while with a s...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130195095
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 142
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130195090
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 268 gr

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