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This document outlines 7 assignments for a 5th year Civil Engineering student on the topic of irrigation engineering, including writing short notes on key irrigation concepts, calculating irrigation requirements and efficiencies given water supply and field parameters, designing an irrigation channel, and developing an irrigation schedule based on soil moisture levels. The assignments cover a range of fundamental irrigation engineering topics and require applying principles of water supply, distribution, and scheduling to quantitative problems.

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This document outlines 7 assignments for a 5th year Civil Engineering student on the topic of irrigation engineering, including writing short notes on key irrigation concepts, calculating irrigation requirements and efficiencies given water supply and field parameters, designing an irrigation channel, and developing an irrigation schedule based on soil moisture levels. The assignments cover a range of fundamental irrigation engineering topics and require applying principles of water supply, distribution, and scheduling to quantitative problems.

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5th year extension Civil Engineering Student

Assignment on Irrigation Engineering (30%)

1. Write short notes on: (briefly)

a) Optimum utilization of irrigation water.


b) Crop rotation.
c) Consumptive use and its estimation.
d) Water distribution efficiency.
e) Net irrigation requirement (NIR) and Gross Irrigation Requirement (GIR)
f) Water content at field capacity of soil
g) Wilting point of soil root zone
h) Water logging and water stress
i) leaching water requirement
2. a) Describe briefly the factors affecting duty.
b) Water is released at the rate of 5 cumecs at the head sluice. If the duty at the field is 100
hectares/cumec and the loss of water in transit is 30%, find the area of the land that can be irrigated.

3. A stream of 130 liter per second was diverted from a canal and 100 liters per second were delivered
to the field. An area of 1.6 hectares was irrigated in 8 hours. The effective depth of root zone was
1. 7 m. The runoff loss in the field was 420 cu. m. The depth of water penetration varied linearly
from 1. 7 m at the head end of the field to 1.1 mat the tail end. Available moisture holding capacity
of the soil is 20 cm per meter depth of soil. It is required to determine the water conveyance
efficiency, water application efficiency, water storage efficiency, and water distribution efficiency.
Irrigation was started at a moisture extraction level of 50% of the available moisture.

4. The following table gives the values of consumptive uses and effective rainfalls for the periods
shown against them, for a rice crop sown at fogera in woreta wereda. The period of growth is from
16th October to 2nd Feb., i.e. (110 days). Determine the net irrigation requirement of this crop,
assuming that water is not required for any other purpose except that of fulfilling the
evapotranspiration needs of the crop.
Dates CWR in mm Re in mm
October 16-31 37.0 30.8

November 1-30 84.2 20.4

December 1-31 154.9 6.7

January 1-31 188.1 2.4

February· 1-2 13.3 1.0

5. Determine the volume of water required to be diverted from the head works to irrigate area of
5000 ha using the data given in the table below. Assume 80% as the effective precipitation to
take care of the consumptive use of the crop. Also assume 50% efficiency of water application
in the field and 75% as the conveyance efficiency of canal.

Hint: use empirical equation for ETc which is equivalent to the total crop water requirement
(CWR) is given by;

ETc = 𝐾 ∗ 𝑃 ∗ 𝑡⁄40 , where t is temperature in oF


6. Work out the irrigation schedule based on the soil moisture concept, given the following
information. Also extract the data on the total depth of irrigation water required and the
respective dates of irrigation water supply:
a) The crop is grown in an appropriate soil with no restrictive layers within the top 1.5 m depth
of soil.
b) Normal root zone depth of the crop is 1.2 m.
c) Bulk density of soil is 1.35.
d) Field capacity is 18% and permanent wilting point is 7%.
e) Moisture level in the soil is to be maintained at not less than one-third of available retention.
Irrigation will then be done over a duration of 2 days at a uniform rate of supply and at a
uniform rate of advance to fully and just compensate for the depletion.
f) No extra water is ever required for leaching.
g) Sowing is done on 1 November when the soil moisture is left just at field capacity in the
entire root zone
h) For the crop, at the location, the average evapotranspiration rates are:

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i) Harvesting is done on or after 26 March.
j) There is expected an effective rainfall of 24 mm during 4 Janua01 to19 January, both days
inclusive, with uniform intensity.
k) By the end of the crop growth season, only the minimum water needed to be left unused in
the root zone.
7. Design non alluvial irrigation channel to carry 40 cumec of discharge, with B/D ratio as 2.5.
The C.V.R is 1.0. Assume a suitable value of Kutter’s rugosity coefficient (K) and use Kennedy’s
method. Take Side slope, m= 0.5

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