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OBJECTIVES

This course address the concept of present science of the practice of irrigation engineering which
comprising partially all the modern developments which occurs in irrigation purpose. In this mainly the
units are taken as metric unit which covers the total area which need for irrigation. In this we can know
about water requirement of crops by hydrology, ground water, reservoir water and rain water storing.
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By this water recourses engineering we can know about design of irrigation structures and planning of
reservoir as for flood control
1. To introduce students to the basic concepts of hydrologic cycle and precipitation and its
applications
2. Learn how to measure rainwater, Infiltration, evaporation and runoff.
3. To introduce students to the basic concepts of Hydrograph analysis and flood analysis
4. Mathematically finding the unit, S, SUH and synthetic hydrograph.
5. To develop the irrigation through wells, groundwater, rainfall.
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6. Necessity and importance of irrigation by its application and some standard methods also.
7. To gain the soil-water for good development of irrigation and estimation on which the total
8. Classification of canals and design of canals by the Kennedys and laceys theory.
9. To design the discharge of flood frequency and concepts of hydrologic and reservoir routing.

1. Group - A (Short Answer Questions)

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Taxonomy Outcome
Level
UNIT I
HYDROLOGY , EVAPORATION AND INFILTRATION
1 Draw the hydrological cycle? Understanding a
2 What are the types of precipitation? Understanding a
3 Define Readily available soil moisture? Understanding a
4 How can we reduce the water usage? Understanding b
Remembering
5 Difference between the rainfall and run off? Evaluate b
6 What are the factors affecting evaporation? Understanding b

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7 How can you measure the infiltration? Evaluate b
8 What are the types of infiltration indices? Remembering b
9 Define permanent wilting point? Understanding b
10 Define rainfall double mass curve? Understanding
b
Remembering
UNIT- II
RUNOFF
1 Explain hydrograph analysis? Understanding c

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2 What do you mean by base flow? Understanding c
3 What do you understand about flood hydrograph? Understanding c
4 Define return period and exceedence probability? Understanding d
5 Define Unit hydrograph? Understanding
d
, remembering
6 Define S- hydrograph? Evaluate d

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7 Define Maximum probable flood? Evaluate c
8 Define Design flood? Understanding
d
, remembering
9 Define Annual series? Remembering d
10 Define Partial series? Understanding
d
remembering
UNIT III
W GROUND WATER
1 Define aquifer? understanding e
2 What are the different types of aquifers? understanding e
3 Define porosity? understanding e
4 Define Specific yield? understanding e
5 Define specific retention? Evaluate e
6 Define Permeability? understanding e
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7 Define transmissibility? understanding e

8 Define Storage coefficient? Understanding
e
,remembering
9 What are the types of wells? Understanding
e
, remembering
10 Ground water and surface water, Which water is more pure? Evaluate e
UNIT-IV
IRRIGATION ENGINEERING & SOIL WATER PLANT RELATIONSHIP
1 Define Irrigation? understanding f
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2 What are the different types of soils? understanding g

3 What do you understand about full supply coefficient? understanding f
4 What are the ill effects of irrigation? understanding f
5 What standards required for Irrigation water? understanding f
6 Define Duty and Delta? understanding f
7 What do you know about the water conveyance efficiency? understanding f
8 What do you understand about vertical distribution of soil moisture? Evaluate g
9 Define water logging? Evaluate f
10 Define field capacity? Evaluate g
UNIT V

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IRRIGATION CANALS AND DESIGN DISCHARGE
1 What is the difference between the lake and a canal? Understanding h
2 Name the two different types of silt theories? Remembering h
3 What do you meant by initial and nal regime of channels? Remembering h
Understanding
4 What are the merits of Lacey's theory? Remembering i
Understanding
5 Why do we need to provide side slopes for canals? Understanding h

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6 What do you understand about SCS curve? Understanding i
Remembering
7 What is meant by detention storage and depression storage? Remembering h
8 What do you know about Gumbels method of flood frequency Remembering i
anaylasis? Understanding
9 What is the difference between the silt and scour? Remembering h

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Understanding
10 Which rational formula gives the best results for flood frequency Evaluate i
analysis?

2. Group - II (Long Answer Questions)

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UNIT I
HYDROLOGY , EVAPORATION AND INFILTRATION
1 (a)Explain the methods of estimating missing rainfall data at a station
in a basin.
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Remembering
(b) Explain step by step procedure you would adopt to prepare the a
Understanding
depth- area duration curves for a particular storm for a basin having a
number of rain-g auges, most of which are recording.
2 Explain the following in brief.
(a) Isohyet
Remembering
(b) Average Annual Rainfall a
Understanding
(c) Probable maximum precipitation
(d) Rain gauge density.
3 (a)Define water equivalent of snow and explain how you estimate
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snow melt? Remembering

a
(b) Discuss the analysis of rainfall data with respect to time, space, Understanding
frequency and intensity.
4 (a)Explain the balanced equation for precipitation and describe the
terms. i. Interception and
ii. Depression storage.
(b)Describe with the help of neat sketches any three methods of Analyse b
separation of base flow from the hydrograph of runoff (i.e. stream
flow hydrograph) indicating the situation under which you advocate
them.

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5 (a) Describe with the help of sketch various forms of soil moisture.
Which of these soil moistures is mainly available for utilization by the
plants?
Analyse
(b)Write short notes on: b
(i) Double-mass curve
(ii) Cold and warm fronts
(iii) Cyclones and anticyclones.

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6 (a)Write short notes on:
(i) Pan Co-efficient
(ii) -index
Creating b
(iii) Evaporation opportunity.
(b) Evaporation is indirectly a cooling process. Justify the statement.
Discuss the factors affecting evaporation.
7 a)Bring out the difference between evaporation, transpiration,

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evapotranspiration and consumptive use.
(b) Discuss the various factors affecting evapotranspiration. Creating b
(c) Distinguish between the potential evapotranspiration and the
actual evapo-transpiration.
8 (a) Discuss the various factors aecting evapotranspiration.
(b)Write notes on the following:
(i). Permanent Wilting point Analyze b
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(ii). Temporary Wilting point
(iii). Readily available soil moisture
9 (a) Explain energy budget method of computing lake evaporation.
Remembering
What are its limitations? b
Understanding
(b) What factors are considered while locating a gauge-discharge site?
10 (a) Dierent iate between: inltration rate and inltration capacity.
(b) Write short notes on:
Analyse b
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(i)Isochrones
(ii)Time of concentration
UNIT II
RUNOFF
1 Dene unit hydrograph. What are the assumptions underlying the unit
Understanding
hydrogr aph theory. How do they limit the applicability of unit d
hydrograph?
2 (a) What does the word unit refer to in the unit hydrograph? Explain
with sketches what do you understand by the principle of linearity and
evaluate
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principle of time invariance in the unit hydrograph theory? d

(b) Describe how recession constants of direct runoff and base flow
curves are obtained from a semi log arithmetic plot.
3 Explain the terms:
(i)Annual series
Understanding
(ii). Partial duration series c
Remembering
(iii). Recurrence interval
(iv). Probable maximum precipitation.
4 Describe how unit hydrograph can be used to predict the runo from Understanding
d
a storm. What are the uses of unit hydrograph. Remembering

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5 Describe the method of estimating a Tr -year ood using Gumbels
analyze c
distr ibution.
6 (a) What are the various components of runo? Describe how each
component is derived in the runo process.
apply c
(b) How is runo estimated using Stranges tables and Barlows
tables
7 State the signicance of inection point on recession side of the

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hydrograph. Also explain the dierent factors that eect the shape of analyze d
the hydrograph.
8 (a) Describe the method of deriving unit hydrograph from complex
storms . analyze d
(b) Describe SCS method in detail.
9 Discuss a method to obtain UH from complex storms. What do you

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under stand by the principle of linearity and time invariance in unit evaluate d
hydrograph?
10 (a) What do you mean by Antecedent precipitation index? Explain. Understanding
c
(b) List out and explain various physiographic factors aecting runo. Remembering
UNIT III
GROUND WATER.
1 Write short notes on:
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(a) Specific capacity of a well and specific yield of an aquifer
Understanding
(b) Aquifer and acuiclude e
Remembering
(c) Open wells and tube wells
(d) Water table and artesian aquifers.
2 Distinguish between
(a) Aquifer and Aquifuge
(b) Confined aquifer and water table aquifer Evaluate e
(c) Aquiclude and Aquitard
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(d) Groundwater and Perched groundwater.

3 Write notes on the following:
i. well losses,
Understanding
ii. Specific capacity of a well, e
Remembering
iii. Spherical flow in a well,
iv. Interference among wells
4 Distinguish between
i. Aquifer s and aquicludes
ii. Non- ar tesian and artesian wells Analyze e
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iii. Perched aquif ers and water table aquier

iv. Permeability and transmissibility.
5 Dierentiate between shallow dug wells and deep dug wells. How the
dug well is constructed? Enumerate the methods which are used for
Evaluate e
determining the yield of dug wells. Discuss briey any one of these
methods.
6 (a) Distinguish with sketches if necessary, the dierence between
unconned and conned aquifer
Evaluate e
(b) Derive a formula for discharge of a well in a homogeneous
unconned aquifer assuming equilibrium ow condition. State the

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assumptions on which the for mula is based.
7 (a ) Distinguish between:
i. Vadose zone and phreatic zone Understanding
e
ii. Aquiclude and Aquitard Remembering
iii. Transmissivity and storativity
8 Dene and explain the following terms as used in connection with
ground water

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i. Capillary fringe, Remembering
e
ii. Specic yeild, &Evaluate
iii. Pellecular water,
iv . Field capacity
9 Write notes on the following:
i. Capillary water ,
Understanding e
ii. Hygroscopic water

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iii. Gravitational water
10 Dene outlet factor, capacity factor, full supply coecient and root
Understanding e
zone depth.
UNIT IV
IRRIGATION ENGINEERING & SOIL WATER PLANT RELATIONSHIP
1 Discuss various methods of irrigation and state the advantages of each Understanding f
method.
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2 (a) Discuss in brief, various methods of surface irrigation. Understanding
(b) Describe the step by step procedure for preparation of land for f
Remembering
irrigation
3 (a) What is meant by C2-S2 water?. Discuss its usefulness for
irrigating fine textured soils.
(b) Write short notes on: Evaluate f
i. Applicability of lift irrigation
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ii. Mixed cropping

iii. Il-effects of irrigation
4 (a) What is meant by Furrow irrigation and Sprinkler irrigation?
Which one is preferred in India and Why. Understanding
f
(b) What is meant by `Border flooding' How does it differ from Remembering
`Check flooding' and `free flooding?
5 (a) Dene Irrigation. What is the necessity of irrigation?
(b) Describe in brief some of the important irrigation projects and Evaluate f
multipurpose river valley projects under taken or completed after
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independence of our countr y.

6 (a) What is meant by ow duty and quantity duty?
(b)Ex plain as how the following factors eect the duty of a crop.
i. soil and sub soil condition Understanding f
ii. Stage of growth
iii. Temperature
iv. Rainfall
7 (a) Define the terms Duty, Delta and base period and also derive the
relation between them. Understanding f
(b) Explain the following terms:

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i. Field capacity
ii. Moisture equivalent
iii. Available moisture.
8 (a) Define irrigation efficiency. List out different types of irrigation
efficiencies. Explain any two of them.
(b) Define Consumptive use of water? List out various methods used Understanding f
for the assessment of consumptive use of water? Explain any one

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method in detail for the estimation of consumptive use
9 (a) Why soil is necessary for plant life. Explain the classification of
soils based on geological process of formation.
g
b) Write down the classification of irrigation water based on sodium Understanding
absorption ratio and its suitability for irrigation.
10 What is meant by duty and delta of canal water? Derive a relation
Analyze g
between duty and delta for a given base period.

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UNIT V
IRRIGATION CANALS AND DESIGN DISCHARGE
1 (a) Write short notes on the following :
i. free boarding in canals
ii. Permanent land width
Analyze h
iii. Inspection road
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iv. Berm
(b) Write down the classication of canals. Explain canal alignment.
2 (a) Why is Laceys conception is superior to that of Kennedys?
(b) What do you understand by
Evaluate i
i. regime channels
ii. Initial and nal regime of channels?
3 (a) When do you classify the channel as having attained regime
condition? Evaluate i
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(b) Describe briey the observations of Lacey on the regime of river.

4 (a) Discuss critically the statement The bank s of an unlined channel
are more Susceptible to erosion than its bed, and hence the stability of
the bank s and not of its bed is the governing factor in unlined canal
designs. Evaluate h
(b) Explain the following terms in detail.
i. Ridge canal
ii. Side slope canal
5 (a) What is the necessity of drainage below the lining? Discuss the
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various drainage and pressure release arrangements.

Analyze i
(b) Using Laceys basic regime equations derive an expression for
Laceys scour depth.
6 What is meant by scour? What precautions do you take against it
Analyze h
during the design of weirs?
7 Explain the mid-section method of computing the discharge in a
stream. Show in a neat sketch, the positions of velocity Analyze i
measurements over the cross sectional area of the stream.
8 Draw a typical cross section of a barrage founded on pervious
Analyze h
foundations and ex plain its salient features.

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9 (a) What do you understand by critical gradient. What will happen if
the critical gradient is exceeded? What is Khosla s safe exit gradient? Analyze i
(b) Explain how Khoslas theory is modication over Blighs theory.
10 Distinguish between:
i. Overland flow and interflow
ii. Influent and effluent streams Remembering h
iii. Detention storage and depression storage

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iv. Drainage density and drainage divide.

3. Group - III (Analytical Questions)

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UNIT I
HYDROLOGY , EVAPORATION AND INFILTRATION
1 A basin has the area in the form of a pentagon with each side of
length 20Km. The ve raingauges loc ted at the corners A, B, C, D
and E have recorded 60, 81, 73, 59 and 45 mm of rainfall evaluate a
respectively. Compute average depth of rainfall over the basin using
arithmetic mean and Theissen polygon methods.
2
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The annual rainfalls at 7 raingauge stations in a basin are 58, 94, 60,
45, 20, 88 and 68cm respectively. What is the percentage accuracy of
the existing network in the estimation of average depth of rainfall evaluate a
over the basin. How many addit ional gauges are required, if it is
desired to limit the error to only 10%.
3 The following information is available at a gauging site
Data Mean of the Flood Standard deviation
River
Length (m3/sec) (m3/sec)
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A 80 Years 6200 2850.0

B 50 Years 5400 3210.0
evaluate a

Estimate 200 year and 500 year oods for the two rivers using
Gumbels method.
4 An outlet is to be designed for a town covering 25 km2 , of which
road area is 30%, residential area 40% and rest industrial area. The
slope of the catchment is 0.004 and maximum length of the town
measured in map is 3 km. From depth duration analysis the following
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Apply b
information is obtained.
Rainfall Duration (min) 30 45 60
Rainfall Depth (mm) 15 20 30
Calculate the peak discharge. The coefficients for road is 0.80,
residential area 0.40 and industrial area is 0.20.
5 The ordinates of a 4-hour unit hydrograph are given below. Derive
the ordinates of a 8-hour unit hydrograph by the S-curve method.
4-hr UGO Time 4-hr UGO Creating b
Time (hr)
(Cumec) (hr) (cumec)
0 0 24 103

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4 24 28 64
8 82 32 36
12 159 36 17
16 184 40 6
20 151 44 0
6 What are the factors which affect infiltration? Explain any one
method of determining the infiltration capacity of soil surface.
Consumptive use Effective rain fall in
Dates
in mm mm

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Analyze
October 16-31 37 20.8 a
November 1-30 94.2 10.4
December 1-31 124.9 6.7
January 1-31 168.1 2.4
February 1-2 13.3 1.0
7 The average rainfall over 45 ha of watershed for a particular storm

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was as follows: The volume of runoff from this storm was determined
as 2.25 ha-m. Establish the -index. Evaluate a
Time (hr) : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Rainfall(cm)
0 0.5 1.0 3.25 2.5 1.5 0.5 0
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8 The average rainfall over 45 ha of water shed for a particular storm
was as follows:
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Time (hr) : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Rainfall(cm) Analyze a
0 0.5 1.0 3.25 2.5 1.5 0.5 0
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The volume of runo from this storm was determined as 2.25 ha -m.
Establish the -index
9 Cumulative rainfall during a storm are:
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Time (h)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Rainfall (mm) Evaluate a
0 7 16 22 32 40 52 68 70
Assume an initial abstraction loss of 10 mm and a constant inltration
loss rate of 5.0 mm/ h. Calculate the storm runo volume from the
catchment of 122 sq. km.
10 The rate of rainfall for the successive 30 min period of a 3-hour storm
is: 1.6, 3.6, 5.0, 2.8, 2.2, 1.0 cm/hr. The corresponding surface runoff Analyze a
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is estimated to be 3.6 cm. Establish the -index. Also determine the

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UNIT II

1 A drainage basin has the following characteristics. Basin area = 2500

sq. km. Length of the main stream L = 110 km
Distanc e from the centroid of the basin to outlet = 7 0 k m. evaluate c
Constuct the 4 hour synthetic unit hydrograph for the basin if Ct = 1
.5 0 and Cp = 0 .6
2 A 4h hydrograph for a project site in Mahanadi Basin is given below.
Creating c
Calculate 2 -h UH by S-hydrograph approach.

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Time (h)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26
UH ordinates
0 30 10 17 21 18 12 80 40 35 68 20 15 50
(m3 / sec)
3 For a river reach K is 28 h and X is 0.25. Route the following inflow
hydrograph. Take O1 = I1 for the beginning step. Determine the
values of attenuation and translation of the peak.
Creating c

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4 Compute the runoff volume from a catchment of 120 Sq.km from the
following data.
Use Khoshla's method and assume that the area belong to Andhra
Pradesh.

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understanding d

5 The peak discharge and time to peak in a 3 h unit hydrograph derived

for a basin of area 250 km2 with L = 30 km and Lc = 14 km are 50m3
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/s and 9 h respectively. Assuming that Snyder's synthetic unit apply c
hydrograph applies determine the coefficient Ct and Cp. Determine
the 2 h unit hydrograph for the upper 180 km2 of the same watershed
which has L= 20km and Lc = 11.8 km.
6 A drainage basin has an area of 3800 km2. Determine :
i. lag period
ii. Peak discharge remembering c
iii. Base period of a 9-hour unit hydrograph from the
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following data:
L = 320 km, Lca = 200km, Ct = 0.9, Cp = 4.0.
7 A water shed of 3130 sq. km was subjected to a storm of 4 hr duration
from which the following are recorded.
evaluate c

Obtain an UH for the watershed

8 A 4h hydrograph for a project site in Mahanadi Basin is given below.
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Calculate 2 -h UH by S-hydrograph approach.

evaluate d

9 A Flood of 1000cumec exceeded 60 times during a period of 30years.

A ood of 3500 cumes exceeded twice.Determine the annual apply d
probability and average recurrence interval for both the oods.
10 The ordinates of a 12- hr unit hydrograph are given below. Compute a Creating d

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6- hour unit hydrograph ordinates.

UNIT-III
GROUND WATER
1 A Flood of 1000 cumec exceeded 60 times during a period of
30years. A ood of 3500 cumes exceeded twice. Determine the Evaluate e
annual probability and average recurrence interval for both the oods

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2 Design a tube well for the following data :
Yield required = 0.2 cumec
Remembering
Thickness of conned aquifer =40 m
& e
Radius of circle of inuence = 30 0m
evaluate
Permeability coecient =80m/ day

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Drawdown= 6m
3 The following data are observed in a stream by a Price current meter.

e
Evaluate
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The current meter rating equation is given as V = 0.33 + 0.03N m/sec.
where N is No. of Revolutions per second. Calculate the river
discharge
4 A well with a radius of 0.5m penetrates completely a confined aquifer
of thickness 40 m and permeability 30m /day. The well is pumped so
that the water level in the well remains at 7.5m below the original evaluate e
piezometric surface. Assuming that the radius of influence is 500m
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compute the steady state discharge from the well

5 A 20 cm well penetrates 30 m below static water level. After a long
period of pumping at a rate of 1800 lpm, the drawdowns in the
observation wells at 12 m and 36 m from the pumped well are 1.2 m
and 0.5 m respectively. Determine the Analyze e
i. Transmissibility of the aquifer
ii Drawdown in the pumped well assuming radius of
influence as 300 m
iii. Specific capacity of the well.
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6 A tube well of 30m diameter penetrates fully in an artesian aquifer.

The strainer length is 15 m. Calculate the yield from the well under a
drawdown of 3 m. The aquifer consists of sand of effective size of 0.2 Evaluate e
mm having coefficient of permeability equal to 50 m/day. Assume
radius of influence is equal to 150 meters
7 A loam soil has eld capacity of 22% and wilting coecient of 10 %.
The dry unit weight of soil is 1.5 g/cm 3. If the root zone depth is 70
cm, deter mine the storage capacity of the soil. Irrigation water is Evaluate e
applied if the moisture content falls to 14%. If the water application
eciency is 75 %, determine the water depth req uired to be applied

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in the eld
8 The CCA for a distributory is 15000 ha. The intensity of irrigation is
40% for rabi and 10% for rice. If kor period is 4 weeks for rabi and
2.5 weeks for rice, determine the outlet discharge. Outlet factor for Evaluate e
rabi and rice may be assumed as 1800 ha /m3 / sec and 775 ha /m3 /
sec. What is design discharge of distributory head at 10% conveyance
9 During a recuperation test, the water in an open well was depressed
by pumping by 2.5 meters and it recuperated 1 .8 meters in 0 minutes.
Find

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i. Yield from a well of 4m diameter under a depression head of 3 Understanding e
meters,
ii. The diameter of the well to yeild 8 litrers/second under a
depression head of 2 meters.
10 An unconned aquifer has an area extent of 15km2. When 9.5 million
cubic metres of water was pumped out, the water table was observed Evaluate

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to go down by 2.4m. What is the specic yield of the aquifer? If the e
water table of the same aquifer rises by 12.5 m during a monsoon
season, what is the volume of recharge?
UNIT-IV
IRRIGATION ENGINEERING & SOIL WATER PLANT RELATIONSHIP
1 Determine the storage capacity of soil from the following data:
Field Capacity = 30%
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Wilting point = 14%
Depth of Root zone = 1.20 m
Dry Unit weight of soil = 1.7 g/cc Understanding g
Also determine the depth of water required in the field if irrigation
water is supplied when the moisture content falls to 20% and the field
application efficiency is 80%. If the conveyance losses in the water
courses and field channels are 16% of the outlet discharge, calculate
the depth of water needed at the canal outlet.
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2 What is the classication of irrigation water having the following

characteristics? Concentration of Na , Ca and Mg are 22 ,3 and 2.5
milli-equivalents per liter respectively and the electrical conductivity Apply f
is 200 micro mhos percm at 250C ? What problems may rise in using
this water on ne textured soils? What remedies do you suggest to
overcome this trouble?
3 A watercourse has a culturable command area of 1200 ha. The
intensity of irrigation for crop A is 40% and for B is 35%, both the
crops being Rabi crops. Crop A has a kor period of 20 days and crop Apply f
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B has a kor period of 15 days. Calculate the discharge of the

watercourse if the depth for crop A is 10 cm and for B is 16 cm.
4 An outlet has 600 ha, out of which only 75% is cultivable. The
intensity of irrigation for Rabi and Kharief seasons are 70% and 30%
respectively. Assuming losses in conveyance system as 10% of the Remembering f
outlet discharge, determine the discharge at the head of the irrigation
channel. Take outlet discharge factor for Rabi season as 1500
ha/cumecs and for Kharief season as 750 ha/cumecs.
5 Determine the storage capacity of soil from the following data: Creating g
Field Capacity = 30%

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Wilting point = 14%
Depth of Root zone = 1.20 m
Dry Unit weight of soil = 1.7 g/cc
Also determine the depth of water required in the field if
irrigation water is supplied when the moisture content falls to
20% and the field application efficiency is 80%. If the
conveyance losses in the water courses and field channels are
16% of the outlet discharge, calculate the depth of water
needed at the canal outlet.

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6 After how many days the farmer should apply water to his field to
ensure efficient use of irrigation water, if the field capacity is 27%,
permanent wilting point is 14%, density of soil is 1500 kg/m3, creating g
effective root zone depth 0.75 m and daily consumptive use of water
is 11 mm.
7 In a certain area paddy crop requires 14 cm of depth of water at an

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interval of 10 days for a base period of 110 days; Whereas wheat crop
requires 9.0 cm of depth of water after 35 days with a base period of remembering g
140 days. Determine the delta of paddy crop and duty of wheat crop
of that area.
8 800 m3 of water is applied to a farmer's rice field of 0.6 hectares.
When the moisture content in the soil falls to 40% of the available
water between the field capacity of 36% of soil and permanent wilting
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point is 15% of the soil crop combination, determine the filed
remembering f
application efficiency. The root zone depth of rice is 60cm. Assume
porosity as 0.4.
9 The base period of Paddy is 120 days. If the duty for this is 900 remembering f
hectares/cumecs. nd the value of delta.
10 The base period, the intensity of irrigation and duty of various crops
under a canal system are given in the table below. Find the reservoir
capacity, if the canal losses are 23% and reservoir losses are 15 %.
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IRRIGATION CANALS AND DESIGN DISCHARGE
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1 Design a trapezoidal shaped concrete lined channel to carry a

discharge of 100 cumecs at a slope of 25 cm/ km. The side slopes of
creating h
the channel are 1.5:1. The value of N may be taken as 0.016. Assume
the limiting velocity as 1.5 m/sec
2 Design a trapezoidal shaped concrete lined channel to carry a
discharge of 100 cumecs at a slope of 25 cm/km. The side slopes of
evaluate h
the channel are 1.5:1. The value of N may be taken as 0.016. Assume
the limiting velocity as 1.5m/sec.
3 Design an irrigation channel section for the following data. h
evaluate
Discharge= 40 cumecs,

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Silt factor=1.0,
Side slopes= : 1
Determine the longitudinal slope also
4 Design a channel section by Kennedy s theory given the following
data:
Discharg e Q =2828 cumecs
Kut ter s N=0 .0225
apply h
Critical velocity ratio m =1
Side slop e = 1/2 : 1

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B/ D = 7 .6
Find also the bed slop e of the channel.
5 Using Lacey s theory, design an irrigation channel for the following
data .
Discharge Q= 50 cumecs , apply h
Silt factor f =1 .0,

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Side slopes:1 /2 :1
6 Mean and standard deviation from annual peak of a river covering 80
years of data are 4100 m3/sec and 1600 m3/sec respectively. Using
evaluate h
Gumbel's method, calculate the return period of the flood of 9100
m3/sec.
7 From the historical data of annual flood peaks of a catchment, the
mean and standard deviation are estimated as 20000m3/s and 10000
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m3/s. An existing structure on this catchment has been designed for Apply h
40000m3/sec. What could be its return period? Assume Gumbel's
extreme value distribution with n = 1.06 and ny = 0.52.
8 From the analysis of available data on annual ood peaks of a small
stream for a period of 35 years, the 50 year and 100 year ood have
been estimated to be 660 m3 / sec a nd 740 m3 / sec; using Gumbles evaluate i
metho d, estimate 200 year ood for the stream. Take n = 1 .12 84 7,
yn = 0 .54034.
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9 The slope of channel in alluvium is S= 1/5000 Laceys silt factor=0.9.

channel side slope= 1/2 :1 Find the channel section and maximum evaluate i
discharge, which can be allowed to ow in it
10 The following data has been obtained while gauging a stream.
Main gauge reading (m) = 20.10 20.10
Auxiliary gauge reading (m) = 19.82 19.13
evaluate h
Discharge (cumecs) = 5.40 9.35
Calculate discharge when the main gauge is 20.10 m and
Auxiliary gauge is 19.52 m.
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