Irrigation works : $b the principles on which their design and working should be based, with special details relating to Indian canals and some proposed improvements

· 1945

1. Preliminary Remarks 1 2. General Principles of Canal Design 2 3. Information concerning Canals 11 4. Losses of Water 16 5. Duty of Water 21 6. Sketch of a Project 26 1. Headworks 30 2. The Contour Map 36 3. Alignments and Discharges 37 4. Remarks on Distributaries 45 5. Design of Canal and Branches 47 6. Banks and Roads 53 7. Trial Lines 58 8. Final Line and Estimate 59 9. Design of a Distributary 60 10. Best System of Distributaries 71 11. Outlets 76 12. Masonry Works 80 13. Pitching 90 14. Miscellaneous Items 93…

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