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Optimum design of a watershed-based tank system for the semiarid and subhumid tropics
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posted on 2011-11-11, 14:02 authored by Ian Smout, Mukund G. Shinde, S.D. GorantiwarSmall reservoirs known as tanks are constructed in the watersheds of arid, semiarid, and subhumid regions of India to provide supplementary or protective irrigation to crops during dry spells of the monsoon season or full irrigation during the postmonsoon season. The stored water in tanks or recharged groundwater is used for this irrigation. Several models have previously been developed to design the capacity of individual tanks. However, for optimum utilization of water generated in a watershed to meet the demands for irrigation and for downstream release, it is necessary to design the tanks together in terms of their number, locations, and capacities. A comprehensive methodology for this is presented using stream points, i.e., possible tank locations on the main stream(s) in the watershed. Tank strategies (combinations of numbers of tanks, their locations at stream points, and tank types) are then generated for the identified stream points. Subsequently, fields in the watershed are assigned to the catchment and the command of different tanks of a specified tank strategy. Simulation of field, tank, and groundwater balance is then carried out on a daily basis, from which optimum tank dimensions are obtained for a specified tank strategy. The optimum tank strategy and corresponding optimum tank dimensions are obtained by investigating all the possible tank strategies.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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SMOUT, I.K., SHINDE, M.G. and GORANTIWAR, S.D., 2011. Optimum design of a watershed-based tank system for the semiarid and subhumid tropics. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 137 (10), pp. 651-658Publisher
© American Society of Civil EngineersVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2011Notes
This article was published in the serial, Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering [© American Society of Civil Engineers ]. The definitive version is available at: http://ascelibrary.org/iro/resource/1/jidedh/v137/i10/p651_s1?isAuthorized=noISSN
0733-9437Language
- en
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