Chapter 21-Special Items of Earth/Masonry Dam and Canals: Notes
Chapter 21-Special Items of Earth/Masonry Dam and Canals: Notes
CANALS
Notes: -
1. Rates include lead Up to 100 m and all lifts for all materials for all items
unless otherwise specified.
2. The Item of stripping shall be payable for depths up to 15 cm only. If
greater depths have to be removed, total depths are to be paid as per
rates of general excavation of earthwork.
3. In case of canal embankment the stripping of seat should normally be
limited to 8 cms, for canal discharge up to 3 cumecs and embankment
height above 1.5 m and only furrowing and ploughing be done for
embankments of height less than 1.5 m. Stripping of seat be done for 15
cms for canal discharge more than 3 cumecs and embankment height
above 0.6m. Only furrowing and ploughing be done for embankments of
height less than 0.6 m, for such canals.
4. Furrowing and ploughing is payable only in the area where benching is not
done.
5. Stripping the seat of embankment shall not be payable in the area covered
by benching the seat of embankment.
6. The rates for excavation of puddle trench includes the cost of cutting and
subsequent removal, if ordered, in steps required in deep trenches for the
inspecting officers and the working labourers to go down and come up.
However it does not include filling up of these steps either by puddle or by
earth.
7. The rates for puddle trench excavation, provided in this chapter, are not
payable for cut-off trench excavation.
8. Regarding bailing out water from puddle trench during excavation, note 10
of Chapter 4-"Excavation And Earthwork" is applicable.
9. For items of filter locally available shingle or gravel be used as a first
preference. If it is not available locally, metal from excavation of hard
moorum with boulder - or rock-cut be used as a second alternative,
provided it is certified by the Executive Engineer while obtaining sanction
to the estimate, that shingle or gravel is not available from nearby nallas or
rivers.
10. For use of metal for filter the extra rate for blasting shall not be payable.
11. The items against which multiplying numbers suffixed by "R" have been
given in the rates column, the payable rates on NMR shall be arrived at as
per note 4 of Chapter 2-"Survey and Investigation".
12. The rates for providing K.M. stones, 0.2 K.M. stone, chainage-cum-
boundary stone of various types include lead up to 100 m for all Materials.
13. Chainage-cum-boundary stone as per type design 4 of Water Resources
Department are to be provided on irrigation channels and as boundary
stones for demarking, boundaries of head works, bund line and quarries
etc.
14. On canals the stone (K.M. and 0.2 K.M.) shall be normally fixed with the
top of concrete platform at 0.1 m above formation level of the canal bank
with front edge of the stone at a distance of 1.5 m from the outer edge of
the bank at top. For this purpose the extra depth of concrete wherever
required, over and above the provisions made in completed item, shall be
payable as per the rates provided in the relevant chapters.
15. Normally before fixing of the stones (KM,0.2 KM and bed grade) the
chaining of the constructed canal shall be redone.
15 (A) In hand packed stone pitching of 45 cm thick in two layers, header stone
of size 45x30x30 cm extending through both layers and spaced at about
1.5 m apart shall be used.
16. Measurement.- (a) Dimensions shall be measured to nearest 0.01 m. The
areas shall be worked out to the nearest 0.01 sq m. The cubical contents
shall be worked out to nearest 0.01 cu m.
(b) No deduction for voids shall be made from the gross measurements of
seepage drain fillings, boulder toe, pitching, filter blanket etc.
17. The following Indian Standards and I.R.C. Specifications may be referred
to:-
I.S.No./IRC No. Title
I.S. 341-1973 Black Japan, type A, B and C (first revision) (reaffirmed
2002).
I.S.2933-1975 Enamel, exterior (a) under coating (b) finishing (first
revision). (Reaffirmed2001)
I.S.3589-2001 Electrically welded steel pipes for water, gas and
sewage (200 to 2000 mm nominal dia) (with
amendment No. 1). (Reaffirmed2006)
I.S.7319-1974 Perforated concrete pipes. (Reaffirmed2005)
I.S.8237-1985 Code of practice for protection of slope of reservoir
embankments(Reaffirmed2002).
I.S.9556-1980 Code of practice for design and construction of
diaphragm walls. (Reaffirmed2003)
I.S.9759-1981 Guide lines for dewatering during construction.
(Reaffirmed2003)
I.R.C: 5- 2000 Standard specifications and code of practice for road
bridges, section I-General Features of design(seventh
revision)
I.R.C:25-1967 Type designs for boundary stones.
I.R.C:26-1967 Type design for 200 metre stones.