Irrigation works

by E. S. Bellasis

INDEX.

• Absorption, [16], [159].
• Alignment, principles of, [4].
• Alignment, centrality in, [5].
• Alteration in line, [59].
• Assiut Barrage, [11].
• Assouan Dam, [11].
• Banks, construction of, [138].
• — protection of, [139], [175], [178].
• — width and height of, [56].
• Banks and Roads, [53].
• Basin Irrigation, [11].
• Berms, [53].
• Bifurcations, [47].
• Bifurcation, head needed at, [45].
• Borrow pits, [55].
• Branches of Canals, [3].
• Breaches in Banks, [176].
• Bricks used for canal work in India, [88].
• Bridges, [8], [80], [87], [130].
• — Skew, [29], [42].
• Bushing of banks, [178].
• Canal and branches, [20], [47].
• Canal, bed width of, [51].
• — supplied from reservoirs, [3], [13].
• — inundation, [1], [45], [79], [127], [156].
• — perennial, [1].
• Capillarity, [16].
• Cattle Gháts, [81], [173].
• Cement for lining channels, [160].
• Chainage, [93], [118].
• Channels, alterations in, [97].
• — enlargement of, [97], [139].
• — gradients of, [50].
• — side slopes of, [52].
• Colonization Schemes, [64].
• Command, [2].
• Commanded area, [4].
• Contour lines, [37].
• — plan, [26], [36], [63].
• — survey, [37].
• Crops, failure of, [103], [142].
• — kinds of, [101].
• Culturable commanded area, [26], [113].
• Curves and bends in channels, [8], [139].
• “Delta,” 22, [110].
• Deputy Collector, [96].
• Designs and Estimates, [60].
• Design of canals, [2], [26], [30], [47], [147], [156].
• Discharge of canal during rabi, [52], [118].
• Discharge observations, [107].
• Discharges of Punjab rivers, [145], [157].
• Discharge tables, [106].
• — through an outlet, [61].
• Distance marks, [93].
• Distribution of water, [14], [118], [125].
• Distributaries, [3], [20], [44], [46].
• — best system of, [71].
• Distributary, bed width of, [68].
• — design of, [60].
• — height and width of banks, [68].
• — kharif, [156].
• — longitudinal section of, [69].
• — major and minor, [41].
• — off-take of, [51].
• — remodelling of, [128].
• — side slopes of, [69].
• — strip of land for, [69].
• — with three fourths full supply, [45], [68], [166].
• Divide Walls, [33], [169].
• Divisions, canal, [96].
• Drainage, [10].
• Drainage Crossings, [8], [156].
• Duty of water, [21], [25], [39], [148], [153], [154].
• Duty, improvement of, [24], [102], [158].
• Eastern Jumna Canal, [31].
• Efflorescence called “Reh,” [15].
• Egypt, irrigation in, [11].
• Embankments, [9], [33], [156].
• Escapes, [9], [100], [180].
• Estimates for work, [59].
• Evaporation, [16].
• Executive Engineer, [96].
• Extensions of canals, [127].
• Extra land, [58].
• Falling Shutters, [32].
• Falls, [8], [81], [87].
• — incomplete, [87], [130].
• — notch, [86].
• Field book, [101].
• — map, [101].
• — register, [101].
• Final line, [59].
• Flow and lift, [11].
• Full supply duty, [64].
• Full supply factor, [64].
• Ganges Canal, [31].
• Gauges, [10], [103], [104], [183].
• Gauge reader, [96], [98], [105], [184].
• Gauge reading, [105], [121].
• — register, [105], [106], [108], [111].
• Gibb’s module, [164], [186].
• Guide banks, [35].
• Head for distributary, [82], [83].
• Headworks, [2], [30], [98], [99], [137].
• Indents for water, [98], [108], [110].
• Inundation canals, [1], [45], [79], [127], [156].
• Irrigation boundaries, [33], [129].
• — in various countries, [1].
• — registers, [113].
• — unauthorised, [101].
• Kennedy’s gauge outlet, [168], [193].
• — Rules for channel design, [48].
• Kharif or Summer Crop, [23].
• Kutter’s co-efficients, [51].
• Lift irrigation, [11], [142].
• Lime for making channels watertight, [162].
• Longitudinal section, [69], [130].
• Losses of water in channels, [16], [38], [159].
• Low supplies, [118], [123].
• Lower Chenab Canal, [25], [144].
• Lower Egypt, [11].
• Lower Jhelum Canal, [144].
• Maintenance work, [138], [171], [174].
• Marginal Embankments, [9].
• Masonry works, [29], [80], [89].
• — — large scale site plan, [89].
• — — type designs, [89].
• Mills, [8].
• Minors, question of desirability of, [75].
• Modules, [162], [186].
• Navigation, [12].
• Needles and horizontal planks, [85].
• Oil for lining channels, [160].
• Older Indian canals, [10], [68], [98].
• Outlet, discharge of, [61].
• — registers, [113].
• Outlets, [15], [61], [66], [67].
• — applications regarding, [140].
• — design of, [76].
• — on inundation canals, [79].
• — on older canals, [68].
• — positions of, [65].
• — remodelling of, [131].
• — register of, [113].
• — size of, [114], [134].
• — temporary, [78].
• — variability of duty on, [66].
• Parapets, width between, [77].
• Patwari, [96], [101].
• Percolation, [16].
• Perennial Canals, [1].
• Pitching, [90].
• Plan, large scale, [59].
• Postal system, [97].
• Profile walls, [91], [94].
• Project, sketch of, [26].
• Proportion of land to be irrigated, [27], [156].
• Puddle for lining channels, [160].
• Punjab, projects for canals in, [144].
• Punjab rivers, [145], [147].
• Quarters for regulating staff, [88].
• Rabi or winter crop, [23].
• Railings, [88].
• Rain, [9], [22], [100].
• Ramps, [88].
• Ratio of bed width to depth, [50].
• Reduction in size of channel, [128].
• Registers, irrigation, [113].
• Regulation of supply, [103], [121], [127].
• Regulators, [7], [80], [84], [184].
• — permissible heading up, [85].
• Remodellings of channels, [127].
• — of outlets and watercourses, [131], [134].
• Rest Houses, [95].
• Reservoirs, [13].
• Rules for designing canals, Kennedy’s, [48].
• Scheme, cost of, [28], [59].
• Sides, falling in of, [139].
• Sidhnai canal minors, [41].
• Silt, clearance of, [97], [138], [139].
• — deposit, [15], [97].
• — trapping at Headworks, [47].
• Silting and scouring, [15], [48], [98], [139].
• Sirhind Canal, [19], [144].
• — — silting in the head reach of, [98].
• Soil, water-logging of, [10], [24], [102].
• Spoil Banks, [52], [57].
• Subdivisions, canal, [95].
• Subdivisional officer, [96].
• Suboverseer, [96].
• Superintending Engineer, [96].
• Supply carried, [100].
• — distribution of, [14], [118].
• — mean and full, [27], [46], [122].
• — regulation of, [103], [104], [106], [127].
• Syphons, [7], [71], [87], [181].
• Tailing of one channel into another, [40].
• Telegraph, line of, [97].
• Training of rivers, [33].
• Trial lines, [58].
• Trial pits, [58].
• Triple canal project, [144].
• Tunnels, [13].
• Turns, or rotational periods of flow, [14], [118].
• Type cross sections, [56].
• Under-sluices, [32].
• Upper Bari Doab Canal, [19], [144].
• — Chenab Canal, [33], [144].
• — Egypt, [11].
• Upper Jhelum Canal, [50], [144].
• Velocity, [12], [50].
• Village lands, [62].
• Watching banks, [175].
• Water, payment for, [12], [100], [102], [142], [143].
• Water level, fluctuation in, [100], [124].
• Watercourse, limit of size of, [74].
• Watercourses, [4], [20], [65].
• — applications regarding, [140].
• — for trees, [58].
• — remodelling of, [131].
• — with poor command, [67], [133], [166].
• Waterings, [11], [24].
• Water-logging of the soil, [10], [24], [102].
• Wave, travel of, down a channel, [124].
• Western America, canals in, [12].
• — Jumna Canal, [31], [39].
• Wing Walls, [89].
• Works, arrangement of, [89].
• — two or more close together, [89].
• — urgent repairs of, [137].
• Zilladar, [96].

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