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Irrigation works

Edward Skelton Bellasis

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Water is wealth in a dry land, and Edward Bellasis lays out how canals capture and carry it. He covers headworks, canal design, losses of water, and the crucial duty of water, sketching a full irrigation project from source to field. A practical engineer's handbook for greening arid ground. Trace the channel from river to root.

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77 chapters

  1. 1IRRIGATION WORKS
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  5. 51. Preliminary Remarks.
  6. 62. General Principles of Canal Design.
  7. 73. Information Concerning Canals.
  8. 84. Losses of Water.
  9. 95. Duty of Water.
  10. 106. Sketch of a Project.
  11. 11CHAPTER II. The Designing of a Canal.
  12. 121. Headworks.
  13. 132. The Contour Map.
  14. 143. Alignments and Discharges.
  15. 154. Remarks on Distributaries.
  16. 165. Design of Canal and Branches.
  17. 176. Banks and Roads.
  18. 187. Trial Lines.

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