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Hydraulic Structures in Water Management

Chapter 2.3 of CDM 3205 discusses various hydraulic structures essential for integrated water resources management, including regulators, transitions, cross drainage works, aqueducts, and siphons. Regulators control flow and maintain water levels, while transitions aim to minimize energy loss in open channels. Cross drainage works divert streams over canals and are costly, whereas aqueducts and siphons facilitate water flow over obstacles.

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Hydraulic Structures in Water Management

Chapter 2.3 of CDM 3205 discusses various hydraulic structures essential for integrated water resources management, including regulators, transitions, cross drainage works, aqueducts, and siphons. Regulators control flow and maintain water levels, while transitions aim to minimize energy loss in open channels. Cross drainage works divert streams over canals and are costly, whereas aqueducts and siphons facilitate water flow over obstacles.

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CDM 3205: Integrated

Water Resources
Management

Chapter 2.3: Hydraulic


Structure

Md. Arif Chowdhury


Assistant Professor
Department of Climate and
Disaster Management
Jashore University of Science and
Technology
Regulator
• These include the cross
regulator and the distributary
head regulator structures for
controlling the flow through a
parent canal and its off-taking
distributary.
• They also help maintain the
water level in the canal
upstream of the regulator.
• Canal regulators, which are
gated structures, may be
combined with bridges and falls
for economic and other
considerations, like topography.
Transition

• A transition is an
open-channel flow
structure whose purpose is
to change the shape or
cross-sectional area of the
flow.
• The design objective is to
avoid excessive energy
losses and to minimize
surface waves and other
turbulence.
Cross Drainage Works
• A Cross Drainage Works is a
construction that diverts a natural stream
discharge over a canal that is impeding
the stream.
• This serves to maintain the drain water
apart from the canal water.
• This is an expensive structure that
should also be avoided.
• This type of structure is costlier one and
needs to be avoided as much as possible. •
Cross drainage works can be avoided in
two ways:
• By changing the alignment of canal water
way
• By mixing two or three streams into one
and only one cross drainage work to be
constructed, making the structure
economical.

Aqueduct
• Aqueducts are water channels or
pipelines constructed over or under a
natural or artificial obstacle, such as a
river or a road.
• They are used to convey water from
one side of the obstacle to the other
without any interruption in the flow.
• When the High Flood Level of the drain is
sufficiently below the bottom of the canal
such that the drainage water flows freely
under gravity, the structure is known as
Aqueduct.
water over an obstruction.
• They consist of pipes or conduits that rise
Siphons above the water level on one side, cross over
• Siphons are inverted U-shaped structures the obstacle, and then descend to the water
that use the principle of a siphon to transport level on the other side.

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