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    This document presents a project proposal to evaluate the feasibility of using a flood detention pond on the Kampala-Masaka highway as irrigation storage for rice fields in the Lwera swamp area. The rice fields have been destroyed by floods due to increased water levels in Lake Victoria. The proposal aims to design a detention pond to control floods while also determining if it can be adapted to store irrigation water. Specifically, the objectives are to design the pond, simulate its response under different conditions, maintain storage within flood safety limits, and satisfy irrigation demands while sustaining swamp flows. The scope focuses on the pond design and feasibility assessment. The study area is the Lwera swamp stretching 20km along the highway and connecting to Lake

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    This document presents a project proposal to evaluate the feasibility of using a flood detention pond on the Kampala-Masaka highway as irrigation storage for rice fields in the Lwera swamp area. The rice fields have been destroyed by floods due to increased water levels in Lake Victoria. The proposal aims to design a detention pond to control floods while also determining if it can be adapted to store irrigation water. Specifically, the objectives are to design the pond, simulate its response under different conditions, maintain storage within flood safety limits, and satisfy irrigation demands while sustaining swamp flows. The scope focuses on the pond design and feasibility assessment. The study area is the Lwera swamp stretching 20km along the highway and connecting to Lake

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    This document presents a project proposal to evaluate the feasibility of using a flood detention pond on the Kampala-Masaka highway as irrigation storage for rice fields in the Lwera swamp area. The rice fields have been destroyed by floods due to increased water levels in Lake Victoria. The proposal aims to design a detention pond to control floods while also determining if it can be adapted to store irrigation water. Specifically, the objectives are to design the pond, simulate its response under different conditions, maintain storage within flood safety limits, and satisfy irrigation demands while sustaining swamp flows. The scope focuses on the pond design and feasibility assessment. The study area is the Lwera swamp stretching 20km along the highway and connecting to Lake

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    Irrigation Storage in A Flood Detention Pond For

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    This document presents a project proposal to evaluate the feasibility of using a flood detention pond on the Kampala-Masaka highway as irrigation storage for rice fields in the Lwera swamp area. The rice fields have been destroyed by floods due to increased water levels in Lake Victoria. The proposal aims to design a detention pond to control floods while also determining if it can be adapted to store irrigation water. Specifically, the objectives are to design the pond, simulate its response under different conditions, maintain storage within flood safety limits, and satisfy irrigation demands while sustaining swamp flows. The scope focuses on the pond design and feasibility assessment. The study area is the Lwera swamp stretching 20km along the highway and connecting to Lake

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    FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

    DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENT

    RESERCH METHODS: PROJECT PROPSAL

    EVALUATIING THE FEASIBILITY OF IRRIGATION STORAGE IN A


    FLOOD DETENTION POND FOR LWERA RICE FIELDS ON KAMPALA-
    MASAKA HIGHWAY

    BY

    OWOMUGISHA SHERRY

    S17B32/610

    Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of a


    Degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering
    1.0 INTRODUCTION

    1.1 Background

    According to the daily Monitor on the 22nd of January 2020, the Lwera rice fields which have
    dug trenches directly connected to L Victoria had been affected by floods with about 350 of the
    1000acres of land destroyed.

    1.2 Problem Statement


    There is a problem of destruction of rice fields on the Lwera Swamp by floods due to increase of
    Lake Victoria’s water level. Despite the fact that environmental activists and the public have
    consistently questioned the viability of sand mining and growing rice in a wetland which filters
    water that pours into Lake Victoria, trenches directly connected to L Victoria were dug in the
    Lwera rice fields. This has resulted into destruction of the fields by floods and posed a high risk
    of floods extending into residents’ houses and displacing them too. A study to evaluate the
    possibility of using a flood detention pond on Lake Victoria as irrigation storage for the Lwera
    rice fields is being carried out to counterfeit this problem.

    1.3 Justification
    Settlement on wetlands in Uganda has become the order of the day and this has resulted into
    continued flooding in such areas which results into destruction of property and loss of lives.
    However, Uganda has continued destruction of wetlands for various purposes like settlement,
    industrialization, agricultural farming as seen in this particular case study. Since controlling of
    such mass destruction has become difficult, it is necessary that we come up with ways to still
    savor the environment despite our continued destruction. It is also important to find new surface
    water volumes satisfying agricultural water demand, finding new ways and areas to store them as
    well as control floods .Therefore, the results of this study will control flooding due to such
    destructions and furthermore provide water for irrigation of agricultural lands in such areas.

    1.4 Objectives

    1.4.1 Main Objective


    To determine the feasibility of irrigation storage in a flood detention pond for the Lwera rice
    fields on Kampala-Masaka highway
    1.4.2 Specific Objectives
     Design a detention pond for the area
     Get a simulation model to aid in evaluation, in a phase of design feasibility analysis
     Determine whether a flood detention pond can be adapted to act as water storage for
    irrigation
     Detention pond response to floods and droughts under different hydraulic conditions and
    reservoir management rules.
     Maintain the stored volume within the maximum admissible for flood safety.
     Maintain a minimum flow in the swamp and to satisfy irrigation water demand.

    1.5 Scope of study


    The study will focus on designing a flood detention pond to control floods on the rice fields due
    to increased water level of Lake Victoria and the determine the possibility of this pond acting as
    a water storage for irrigating the fields and other agricultural farms in the area.

    1.6 Study Area


    Lwera swamp stretches about 20kms on the Kampala–Masaka highway, and is a major water
    catchment area that connects several rivers and wetlands in Gomba, Mpigi and Kalungu districts
    and drains directly into Lake Victoria. The Lwera rice fields are Owned by Zhong industries Ltd,
    a Chinese company, the farms sits on a leased 700-acre-land in the swampy Lwera stretch near
    Lake Victoria in Lukaya town council, Kalungu district, about 100 km south of Kampala city.

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    2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

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