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    Canal headworks are hydraulic structures constructed across rivers to divert water into canals. They serve several purposes, including raising the river water level, regulating intake into the canal, and controlling silt entry. There are two main types: diversion headworks, which use weirs or barrages to divert water; and storage headworks, which use dams to form reservoirs. Key components of diversion headworks include the weir/barrage, under sluices, divide wall, fish ladder, canal head regulator, approach channel, and river training works.

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    Canal headworks are hydraulic structures constructed across rivers to divert water into canals. They serve several purposes, including raising the river water level, regulating intake into the canal, and controlling silt entry. There are two main types: diversion headworks, which use weirs or barrages to divert water; and storage headworks, which use dams to form reservoirs. Key components of diversion headworks include the weir/barrage, under sluices, divide wall, fish ladder, canal head regulator, approach channel, and river training works.

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    Canal headworks are hydraulic structures constructed across rivers to divert water into canals. They serve several purposes, including raising the river water level, regulating intake into the canal, and controlling silt entry. There are two main types: diversion headworks, which use weirs or barrages to divert water; and storage headworks, which use dams to form reservoirs. Key components of diversion headworks include the weir/barrage, under sluices, divide wall, fish ladder, canal head regulator, approach channel, and river training works.

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    Canal headworks are hydraulic structures constructed across rivers to divert water into canals. They serve several purposes, including raising the river water level, regulating intake into the canal, and controlling silt entry. There are two main types: diversion headworks, which use weirs or barrages to divert water; and storage headworks, which use dams to form reservoirs. Key components of diversion headworks include the weir/barrage, under sluices, divide wall, fish ladder, canal head regulator, approach channel, and river training works.

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    Irrigation Structures | Bakenaz A.

    Zeidan

    CHAPTER 1
    INTRODUCTION TO CANAL HEAD WORKS
    Introduction to headwork:

    The river discharge is never constant and regular. Obviously when a permanent
    canal system is taken-off from the river some works are to be provided at the off-
    take to take care of irregularities in river flow condition. Since these works are
    constructed at the point of takeoff that is at the head of the canal system they are
    termed as canal headworks. The main object of the canal headworks is to divert
    the water from the river into the canal. It is sometimes termed diversion
    headworks also. Canal Headwork is a civil engineering term for any hydraulic
    structure constructed across a river and supplies water to the off taking canal.

    Any hydraulic structure which delivers water to off-taking canal is called a


    headwork. Canal Headworks are classified to:

    Diversion Headworks: A weir or a barrage is constructed across a river to raise


    water level and to divert water to a canal is known as a diversion headwork.

    Storage Headworks: A dam is constructed across a river valley to form a storage


    reservoir is known as a storage headwork.

    FUNCTIONS OF
    CANAL HEADWORKS
    Canal headworks

    the following purposes


    1.A headwork raises the water level in the river
    2.It regulates the intake of water into the canal
    3.It controls the entry of silt into the canal
    4.A headwork can store water for small periods
    5.A headwork can reduce fluctuations in the level of river supply
    SITE LOCATION OF CANAL HEADWORKS
    Site choice of a canal headwork may be:

    1.Rocky Stage :River steep slope with high velocity


    2.Sub mountainous or boulder stage: boulder or gravel
    3.Alluvial plan: Bed slope small with gentle velocity

    A headwork site selection should satisfy the following rules:

    1.The river section at the site should be narrow and well-defined.


    2.The river should have high, well-defined, erodible and non-submersible
    banks so that the cost of river training work is minimum
    3.The canals taking off from the diversion head works should be quite
    economical and should have a large commanded area.
    4.There should be suitable arrangement for the diversion of river during
    construction.
    5.The site should be such that the headwork can be aligned at right angles to
    the direction of flow in the river.

    1.Diversion Headwork
    DIVERSION
    HEADWORKS
    The works, which are constructed at the head of the canal, in order to divert the
    river water towards the canal, so as to ensure a regulated continuous supply of silt-
    free water with a certain minimum head into the canal, are known as diversion
    heads works. A diversion headwork is constructed across a river to raise water
    level and to divert water to a canal. When a weir or barrage is constructed across
    a river to raise the water level and to divert the water to the canal, then it is known
    as diversion head work. The flow in the canal is controlled by canal head regulator.

    Components of a
    Diversion Headwork
     Weir or barrage
     Under sluices
     Divide wall
     Fish ladder
     Canal head regulator
     Pocket or approach
    channel
     Silt excluders/ Silt
    prevention devices
     River training works
    (Marginal bund and guide
    banks)
    Components of a
    Diversion Headwork
     Weir or barrage
     Under sluices
     Divide wall
     Fish ladder
     Canal head regulator
     Pocket or approach
    channel
     Silt excluders/ Silt
    prevention devices
     River training works
    (Marginal bund and guide
    banks)
    Components of a
    Diversion Headwork
     Weir or barrage
     Under sluices
     Divide wall
     Fish ladder
     Canal head regulator
     Pocket or approach
    channel
     Silt excluders/ Silt
    prevention devices
     River training works
    (Marginal bund and guide
    banks)

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