The Control of Water As Applied to Irrigation Power And Town Water Supply Purpo
The Control of Water As Applied to Irrigation Power And Town Water Supply Purpo
Philip Morley Parker
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Thus, during each flood we have a heavy scour in the constricted channel, and the area thus scoured out is filled up with fresh silt during the low water season, pro tanto reducing the amount of silt reaching the weir or canal head. Bridge SKETCH No. 171. Severe attack on a Bell Dyke. These general principles of river training and control being clear, their application to a canal headworks is, I think, obvious. A constricted channel should be established some distance above the canal head, and ...should be arranged so as to direct the flow of the river to about the middle of the weir ; i. E. Where the normal breadth is 5000 feet, the prolongation of the nearer training bank should cut the weir about 2000 feet away from the canal head. This being done, the river is properly directed ; and, what is INUNDATION CANALS 669 probably still more important, the deep scoured channel between the training banks forms a very effective silt trap during the low water season. A complete design would of course specify the distance between the weir and the tail of the banks, and between the canal head and the line of the.
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