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What Is Diversion of Headworks (Rivers) | Types of Diversion Headworks | Component Parts of Diversion Headworks (Rivers)

Diversion Headworks

Important Point

  • What Is Diversion of Headworks (Rivers)?
    • Purposes of Diversion Headworks (Rivers)
    • Types of Diversion Headworks
    • Temporary Diversion Headworks.
    • Permanent Diversion Headworks.
  • Component Parts of Diversion Headworks (Rivers)
    •  Weir or Barrage
    •  Weir 
    • Barrage
    • Divide wall
    • Fish ladder
    • Approach Channel
    • Under Sluices or Scouring Sluices
    • Silt Excluder
    • Canal Head Regulator

What Is Diversion of Headworks (Rivers)?

For direct irrigation from the river, a structure is constructed across a river to raise the water level is known as diversion headwork. It divers the required supply into the offtaking canal the river.

Purposes of Diversion Headworks (Rivers)

• It raises the water level in the river upstream of the headwork. This facilitates the diversion of water into the offtaking canal.

• It controls the entry of silt, debris & other suspended & floating material into the canal.

• It gives constant water supply,

• It regulates the intake of water into the canal.

• It stores waters for tiding over small periods of short supplies.

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Types of Diversion Headworks

A diversion headworks can further be subdivided into two principal types.

• Temporary spurs or bunds.

• Permanent weirs or barrages

Temporary Diversion Headworks.

To stop the flow of the river, a spur or bund of temporary nature is constructed across the river. Due to spur or bund water level increases in the river.

It can be diverted to the command area. This type of construction is not able to pass the flood safely. So it can be damaged during the food.

Temporary spurs or bunds are constructed every year after the floods.

Permanent Diversion Headworks.

Permanent diversion headworks consists of a permanent structure such as weir or barrage constructed across the river to raise the water level in the river and divert it into the canal.

Most of the diversion headworks for important canal systems in our country are permanent diversion headworks, and the same are described in the following sections.

Component Parts of Diversion Headworks (Rivers)

Component Parts of Diversion Headworks

• Weir or Barrage

• Divide wall

• Fish ladder

• Approach Channel

• Under sluices or scouring sluices

• Silt excluder

• Canal head regulator

 Weir or Barrage

For important works, weirs or barrages are constructed. At permanent diversion headworks, canal head regulator is also constructed. Let us discuss weirs and barrages in detail.

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 Weir 

Weir

A weir is a solid obstruction constructed of masonry or concrete across the river to raise its offtaking canal. If weir stores water for tiding over small periods of short supplies, it is called a storage weir. The difference in storage weir and dam is in the following points.

• Height

• Duration for which supply is stored

Darn stores water for a comparatively longer duration and is mostly higher than the weir.

Barrage

Barrage

A barrage is also another type of diversion headwork, in the barrage heading up of water id effect by the operation of gates.

No solid obstruction is put across the river. The crest level of the barrage is kept at a low-level, mostly at the river bed level.

The crest level of the barrage should be kept at a low level. During floods, gates are opened to lower the high flood level.

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Divide wall

diversion-walls

A divide wail may be of solid masonry or a grovne. Groyne is an embankment protected on all sides by stories or blocks. It is built at right angles to the axis of the weir separating the weir and the under sluices.

The divide wall extends upstream to a little beyond the beginning of the head regulator and downstream to the launching apron of under sluice portion.

The divide wall is normally constructed of solid masonry. It is constructed on a well foundation taking the walls below the deepest possible scour.

Fish ladder

Fish Ladder

Large rivers are generally inhibited by several types of fish, many of which are migratory such fish has found to be moving from u/s hill to d/s at the beginning of winter season in search of warmer water and return to their spawning ground u/s, slightly before the monsoon in May and June.

If no arrangement is made in weir or a dam to enable their migration, their life goes in danger. So, for an easy moment of the fish from u/s to d/s and again from d/s to u/s fish ladder is constructed. The typical plan of the fish ladder is shown above figure.

Approach Channel

The velocity of the river water should be reduced, when it reaches to the canal head regulator when the velocity reduces, the silt particles which are in suspension will settle down & clean water may enter the canal.

To reduce the entry of silt into the canal, the floor level of the upstream side is so adjusted that a pocket is made in front of the canal head regulator.

In this pocket, the silt settles down, and the canal draws water from the still pond of the pocket. This pocket is known as an approach channel, which is made with the help of a divide wall.

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Under Sluices or Scouring Sluices

Under sluices

These are the opening made in the wair structure. The under sluices or scouring sluices make a deep channel in front of the head regulator.

They discharge a part of flood on the d/s side of the under sluices should be kept lower than that of the crest of the head regulator by atleast 1 to 1.2 meters.

Piers are constructed at regular intervals between the piers gates are provided. The flow of water is controlled by the approach channel of the weir is discharged to the downstream side by opening the gates.

Due to this reason, they are also known as scouring sluices. While designing the capacity of under sluice, the following points should be considered.

• The capacity of the under sluices should be atleast double the canal discharging so that silt can be discharged to the downstream side easily.

• Under sluices shod; be capable of discharging winter flow. With canal outflow without dropping the weir shutters.

•For the high flood condition, it should be capable of allowing to pass about 10% to 15% of the maximum flood volume.

Silt Excluder

Silt Excluder

Silt excluder is a  structure constructed in the bed of a river, u/s of a head regulator to attack the river bed water and divert the same into the d/s of the river.

Its main function is to prevent the entry of silt into the canal. A typical silt excluder is shown in the figure.

Canal Head Regulator

Canal Head Regulator

• The waterway of the head regulator should be sufficient to pass the full supply discharge of the canal.

• The crest level of the head regulator should be higher than that of the under sluices by 1 to 1.2 m. It silt excluder is not provided.

• A concrete cutoff at the end of the impervious floor should be provided.

• The hydraulic jump calculations over the sloping glacis are done in the same way as sloping weir glacis.

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