ct4410: requirement and delivery
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Irrigation: crops and water delivery
Irrigation and Drainage CT4410
Maurits Ertsen
Water Resources Management
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Nevada Irrigation District
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Nevada Irrigation District
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A little history of NID
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Transforming a ditch for mines to a ditch for irrigation
• High canals
• Continuous flow
• Reservoirs
• Water measurement in NID
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The system
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Water measurement• The miners inch
• Amount of water flowing through a surface of one square inch with a head of six inches.
• How many liters per second??
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Controlling the canal
• What if a farmer does not needs his water?
• How to keep the constant head?
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Water requirements
• How to determine water requirements?
• How to predict water demand?
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Design problem
What cropping pattern do you take?
How correct is the ET calculation?
How correct is the ET and rainfall for the entire area?
How would you take into account “real” soil processes?
In other words: how to take into account heterogeneity?
Lankford (2004) discusses this.
How to use remotely sensed ET in DESIGN ??
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How to irrigate crops?
• Pressurized system
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Crop water requirement calculation: example
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Blue beans Start 1/1
Growth stage LengthCrop
coefficient Root depth
Days Meter
Initial 90 0.5 2
Development 90 >>
Mid 90 1.2 2
Late 95 0.8 2
365
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ClimateRain ETo
mm/stage mm/day
Initial 90 5
Development 65 6
Mid 40 7
Late 80 5
CRW mm/day
Rain Eto kc Etg Etn
Initial 1.00 5 0.5 2.5 1.50
Development 0.72 6 0.85 5.1 4.38
Mid 0.44 7 1.2 8.4 7.96
Late 0.84 5 0.8 4 3.16
Remarks:
Assuming all rain is effective
Simplifying development stage
Significant numbers??
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How to distribute that?
Flow for a farm of one hectare
mm/day m3/s l/s
Continuous 8 0.0009259 1
Continuous during day 8 0.0018519 2
Every week for 10 hours 8 0.0155556 16
Every week for 1 hour 8 0.1555556 156
Every month for 1 hour 8 0.6666667 667
1. Suppose I have 10 farms, how much should my canal carry?
2. Suppose I have 1200 l/s, how many farms can irrigate at the same time?
3. In case 2, how large would my surface area per canal become?
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Your assignment
1. Calculate total water demand for a 1000 hectare area in the NID over a year.
2. Describe how this water would be supplied within the NID water delivery philosophy.
3. Calculate required canal flows at the intake for this 1000 hectare area.
4. Design the canal and outlets for this area, assuming that 20 farmers with each 50 hectares take water. Assume the canal being 10 kilometers long, with farm intakes evenly spread on one side.
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Example information Trees 35% of total area Start 1/4
Growth stage Length Crop coefficient Root depth
Days Meter
Initial 140 0.9 2
Development 30 >>
Mid 150 0.95 2
Late 45 0.9 2
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C r op c oe f f i c i e nt Tr e e s
0.000.200.400.600.801.001.20
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Days
Kc
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First, a little warning: physical reality needed
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What did I do? Water requirements
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ET crops Rain ET net
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Water need in l/s and miners inches/farm
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Flow in l/s/10 Miners inch per farm
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So why start per April 1??
• What if a farmer is an early vegetable grower?
• What if it does not rain in April?
• What if … ?
And the canal?
I know I will have fluctuating flows and that there is a need to maintain the same water level. So, one uniform flow calculation will not suffice. And I probably need some kind of water level control, and perhaps some spills.
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Canal calculation
Not that straightforward designing a fitting canal and structures
canal AB
L 10000
H control 0.64
y 0.64
A 2.97
Q 0.66
m 1
v 0.22
R 0.51
s 0.0001
k 35
b 4
n 6.3
canal AB
L 10000
H control 0.71
y 0.71
A 3.34
Q 0.8
m 1
v 0.24
R 0.56
s 0.0001
k 35
b 4
n 5.6
Q increases:
canal AB
L 10000
H control 0.47
y 0.47
A 2.10
Q 0.4
m 1
v 0.19
R 0.39
s 0.0001
k 35
b 4
n 8.5
Q decreases:
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Canal calculation
So probably we need water level controls somewhere.
Weirs?
Spills?
How many?
Dimensions?
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And what if I have farmers with only fuit and vegetables????
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ET average ET fr and veg
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What did I do?
Design discharge of 1 m3/s
Water depth of 1 meter, bed width of 2 meters
Slope of 1 in 10000
Side slope of 1
Roughness of about 45 (Strickler)
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Result with inflow and all outlets are open.
NO LEVEL CONTROL
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LEVEL CONTROL WITH WEIR
But as discharges downstream are very low and as there is no flow over the weir, no real improvement.
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LEVEL CONTROL WITH WEIR
With extra discharge, there is flow over the weir.
Now it would be a matter of optimization…
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Challenge the future
DelftUniversity ofTechnology
Structures as the key of a system. Example Elche, Spain
Maurits Willem Ertsen
Delft University of Technology
Third largest city of the Autonomous Community of Valencia, Spain
Some 200,000 inhabitants
Irrigated agriculture
Huertas
Elche Palmeral: a little over 500 hectares (about 5,000,000 m2)
Landscape
Water
sources
Canal system
Canals
Canals
Walking along
the water
Walking further along
the water
Canals
What is
irrigation
about?
A structure as expression of water rights.
Remember?
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Irrigation: main system layout
Water Resources Management
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Ordering the disorder?
• You know water demand and water availability
• Therefore you know the potential area
• You know the smallest unit you have to deliver water to
• You know how you want to deliver water
• You have ideas about structures to be applied
• It’s time for the canals!
Goal: smallest unit
Source: river Goal: smallest unit
Goal: smallest unit
Goal: smallest unit
???
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Main issues
• Layout of the main system• Every canal above tertiary units
• Determined by natural terrain and units
• Capacities of main system• Losses
• Rotation
• Statistics
• Behavior of the main system• Hydraulic flexibility
• Operational flexibility
• Reaction times
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Layout
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(contour lines in meters)
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Layout
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 km
(contour lines in meters)
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Capacities Q is known
Is total Q known???
Results in a Q here
But here????
Q at a certain level is not necessarily the
sum of all Q’s at lower levels.
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Capacities: example 1
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Hectares
l/s/
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Proportional
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Capacities: example 2
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Proportional, taking into account losses
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Capacities: example 3
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1 367 732 1097 1462 1828 2193 2558 2923 3289 3654 4019 4384 4750
Hectares
l/s/
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Higher potential demands on lower levels
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Capacities of the drainage system
Loads on the system: rainfall of 100 mm in 2 hours
• Assuming an irrigated area of 5000 hectares, this would give a volume of
5,000,000 m3
But: how to discharge this volume?
• In 2 hours: 694 m3/s
• In 5 days: about 6 m3/s
• Water will be stored in the system: on the fields, in the canals, in the soil (?)
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In short: enough to decide.
Again……
• The load: how often does it occur? Probability?
• Design a drainage canal for a certain maximum Q with freeboard, and allow a higher Q at times (without freeboard)?
• Need to drain the irrigation supply? For example when nobody wants to irrigate?
• Furthermore: like with supply canals, the sum of all individual canals does not have to be the same as the maximum drainage discharge capacity.
Drainage capacities: decision time
Like with the peak demand for soil preparation!
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Three rainfall scenarios
• Rainfall is showers (about every 10 to 15 days)
• Rainfall averaged over all the days
• Rainfall in showers with maximum shower at 100 mm/day
• All other parameters equal
• Irrigation at 100 mm per 10 days
• Silty loam
• Initial groundwater at 3 meter below surface
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Rain in showers
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Rain Irrigation Groundwater
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Showers plus maximum
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Rainfall Irrigation Groundwater
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Average
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Rain Irrigation Groundwater
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And the runoff??
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Average Showers Showers maximum
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Layout
Unit 1a
Unit 1b
Unit 2a
Unit 2b
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Water levels in the system??
+ 13 m
+ 12 m
+ 10.4 m
+ 15 m
+ 10.4 + 0.20 + 0.20 + 0.20 = 11 m
+ 12 + 0.20 + 0.15 + 0.20 = 12.55 m
+ 13 + 0.20 + 0.20 + 0.20 = 13.6 m
+ 9.5 m
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Thus required water levels are:
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Design a canal (calculate) and determine control structures for offtakes/canal. Each offtake requires 1 m3/s in the peak season and may
need less or nothing during the remaining months.
Remember your NID task????
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Your own designIssue 1: Water demand versus water availability
• Timing of the demand
• Timing of availability
• Amount of hectares to be irrigated
• Associated risk in balancing demand and availability
• Issue 2: Bringing water to the field(s)
• Continuously, rotation, fixed turns, days, hours, what flow is available for farmers?
• Issue 3: Grouping farmers or not - units
• Issue 4: Who decides?
• Water delivery
• Demand-based, request-based, supply-based?
• Upstream or downstream control?
• Issue 5: Water control structures
• Discharge control, measurement, fixed or adjustable, sensitivity?
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Dimensioning your irrigation system
• Take a typical stretch of your system
• Determine required water levels along this stretch, taking into account requirements from smaller canals, structures etcetera
• Determine available energy gradient per section
• Design canals and structures (steady flow)
• Check, check and check! What happens when Q is lower, or higher, or whatever (steady flow).