Summer Falls High Head Kaplan Turbine Project
The Summer Falls Project is located on the Main Canal of the Grand Coulee Irrigation Project approximately eight miles south of Coulee City in Grant County, Washington. The power development...
Methods of Evaluating Canal Transmission Losses
This paper discusses various methods presently used to evaluate transmission losses with particular emphasis on those methods used in the Bureau of Reclamation....
Economic Analysis of Canal Animal Protection Measures
Justification of canal animal protection measures has been, to a degree, driven by environmental and social constraints and as a result, large expenditures of funds to protect ungulates...
Proposed Improvements in Lateral Canal Operations
Uniform and flexible supplies of irrigation water are required for farmers to make the best use of their on-farm application systems. Results of a study of deliveries at the lateral canal...
Simulation and Video Animation of Canal Flushing Created by a Tide Gate
A tide-gate algorithm was added to a one-dimensional unsteady flow model that was calibrated, verified, and used to determine the locations of as many as five tide gates that would maximize...
Silt Run Effectiveness in Withdrawing Sediment
An investigation was conducted during the silt runs on the North Platte River to determine the continued effectiveness of the runs in providing fine sediments to the canal systems downstream....
Pioneer Conjunctive Use Program in the Southern San Joaquin Valley
The Arvin-Edison Water Storage District is located in the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley of California. The District is a pioneer in using conjunctive use operations to overcome...
Dispersive Soil and its Influence on the Design of Reach 1A of the Tucson Aqueduct?Central Arizona Project
An extensive geotechnical field exploration and laboratory testing program was conducted because of dispersive and erosive soils along the alignment of the canal. The canal design was...
A New Approach to Watershed Planning
Public and government concern over possible degradation of water quality and natural resources in the Hood Canal estuary has led to the creation of a unique intergovernment body, the Hood...
Overview of Canal Control Concepts
An overview of terminology and philosophies of canal control, plus brief descriptions of canal automation technologies, is given. The justification given for examining control schemes...
Long Crested Weirs
A method has been developed to integrate and evaluate the head relationship between canal weirs and turnouts. The objective is to minimize flow variations through the turnout and at the...
Neyrtec Automatic Equipment for Irrigation Canals
The French Company ALSTHOM has developed a line of simple equipment for automatic level control and constant discharge control in canal irrigation systems. The paper includes a description...
Bival System for Downstream Control
The BIVAL system of canal regulation guarantees that the maximum discharge can be delivered at any time, as for downstream control systems and, moreover, it minimizes the canal dyking...
Canal Automation Using the Electronic Filter Level Offset (EL-FLO) Method
Beginning in 1969, the Bureau of Reclamation began testing and refining an electronic filter level offset (EL-FLO) control system for canal automation. The control system uses a proportional...
Philosophy and Implementation of Gate Stroking
The purpose of this paper is to examine one control method - gate stroking - the philosophy which would lead to its selection and an example of its implementation. Gate stroking provides...
Dynamic Regulation on the Canal De Provence
Dynamic regulation is a remote management, control and monitoring system which is entirely automated and ensures permanent closed-loop control of all water movements and safety devices....
Selection of Appropriate Technology in Irrigation Canal Systems
A variety of approaches to irrigation management and system operation exist and great care should be taken in selecting the one to be used in new or rehabilitation/modernization projects....
Case Study?Open Pipeline System, Coachella Valley Water District
A supervisory canal control system installation was started in 1966, seventeen years after start up, and a major upgrading was completed in 1983. The canal delivery system now has a central...
Instrumentation: Canal De Provence
A report describing the Canal de Provence and its specific hydraulic regulation system, 'dynamic regulation', is presented in another conference paper. The present...
Data and Control Communication Methods for Delivery System Operations
The selection of a communication system for the automation of a canal system requires careful consideration of the type of canal system operation desired, the location of the facilities...
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