INDEX.
Reading edition
Absorption, 16, 159.
Alignment, principles of, 4.
Alignment, centrality in, 5.
Alteration in line, 59.
Assiut Barrage, 11.
Assouan Dam, 11.
Banks, construction of, 138.
— protection of, 139, 175, 178.
— width and height of, 56.
Banks and Roads, 53.
Basin Irrigation, 11.
Berms, 53.
Bifurcations, 47.
Bifurcation, head needed at, 45.
Borrow pits, 55.
Branches of Canals, 3.
Breaches in Banks, 176.
Bricks used for canal work in India, 88.
Bridges, 8, 80, 87, 130.
— Skew, 29, 42.
Bushing of banks, 178.
Canal and branches, 20, 47.
Canal, bed width of, 51.
— supplied from reservoirs, 3, 13.
— inundation, 1, 45, 79, 127, 156.
— perennial, 1.
Capillarity, 16.
Cattle Gháts, 81, 173.
Cement for lining channels, 160.
Chainage, 93, 118.
Channels, alterations in, 97.
— enlargement of, 97, 139.
— gradients of, 50.
— side slopes of, 52.
Colonization Schemes, 64.
Command, 2.
Commanded area, 4.
Contour lines, 37.
— plan, 26, 36, 63.
— survey, 37.
Crops, failure of, 103, 142.
— kinds of, 101.
Culturable commanded area, 26, 113.
Curves and bends in channels, 8, 139.
“Delta,” 22, 110.
Deputy Collector, 96.
Designs and Estimates, 60.
Design of canals, 2, 26, 30, 47, 147, 156.
Discharge of canal during rabi, 52, 118.
Discharge observations, 107.
Discharges of Punjab rivers, 145, 157.
Discharge tables, 106.
— through an outlet, 61.
Distance marks, 93.
Distribution of water, 14, 118, 125.
Distributaries, 3, 20, 44, 46.
— best system of, 71.
Distributary, bed width of, 68.
— design of, 60.
— height and width of banks, 68.
— kharif, 156.
— longitudinal section of, 69.
— major and minor, 41.
— off-take of, 51.
— remodelling of, 128.
— side slopes of, 69.
— strip of land for, 69.
— with three fourths full supply, 45, 68, 166.
Divide Walls, 33, 169.
Divisions, canal, 96.
Drainage, 10.
Drainage Crossings, 8, 156.
Duty of water, 21, 25, 39, 148, 153, 154.
Duty, improvement of, 24, 102, 158.
Eastern Jumna Canal, 31.
Efflorescence called “Reh,” 15.
Egypt, irrigation in, 11.
Embankments, 9, 33, 156.
Escapes, 9, 100, 180.
Estimates for work, 59.
Evaporation, 16.
Executive Engineer, 96.
Extensions of canals, 127.
Extra land, 58.
Falling Shutters, 32.
Falls, 8, 81, 87.
— incomplete, 87, 130.
— notch, 86.
Field book, 101.
— map, 101.
— register, 101.
Final line, 59.
Flow and lift, 11.
Full supply duty, 64.
Full supply factor, 64.
Ganges Canal, 31.
Gauges, 10, 103, 104, 183.
Gauge reader, 96, 98, 105, 184.
Gauge reading, 105, 121.
— register, 105, 106, 108, 111.
Gibb’s module, 164, 186.
Guide banks, 35.
Head for distributary, 82, 83.
Headworks, 2, 30, 98, 99, 137.
Indents for water, 98, 108, 110.
Inundation canals, 1, 45, 79, 127, 156.
Irrigation boundaries, 33, 129.
— in various countries, 1.
— registers, 113.
— unauthorised, 101.
Kennedy’s gauge outlet, 168, 193.
— Rules for channel design, 48.
Kharif or Summer Crop, 23.
Kutter’s co-efficients, 51.
Lift irrigation, 11, 142.
Lime for making channels watertight, 162.
Longitudinal section, 69, 130.
Losses of water in channels, 16, 38, 159.
Low supplies, 118, 123.
Lower Chenab Canal, 25, 144.
Lower Egypt, 11.
Lower Jhelum Canal, 144.
Maintenance work, 138, 171, 174.
Marginal Embankments, 9.
Masonry works, 29, 80, 89.
— — large scale site plan, 89.
— — type designs, 89.
Mills, 8.
Minors, question of desirability of, 75.
Modules, 162, 186.
Navigation, 12.
Needles and horizontal planks, 85.
Oil for lining channels, 160.
Older Indian canals, 10, 68, 98.
Outlet, discharge of, 61.
— registers, 113.
Outlets, 15, 61, 66, 67.
— applications regarding, 140.
— design of, 76.
— on inundation canals, 79.
— on older canals, 68.
— positions of, 65.
— remodelling of, 131.
— register of, 113.
— size of, 114, 134.
— temporary, 78.
— variability of duty on, 66.
Parapets, width between, 77.
Patwari, 96, 101.
Percolation, 16.
Perennial Canals, 1.
Pitching, 90.
Plan, large scale, 59.
Postal system, 97.
Profile walls, 91, 94.
Project, sketch of, 26.
Proportion of land to be irrigated, 27, 156.
Puddle for lining channels, 160.
Punjab, projects for canals in, 144.
Punjab rivers, 145, 147.
Quarters for regulating staff, 88.
Rabi or winter crop, 23.
Railings, 88.
Rain, 9, 22, 100.
Ramps, 88.
Ratio of bed width to depth, 50.
Reduction in size of channel, 128.
Registers, irrigation, 113.
Regulation of supply, 103, 121, 127.
Regulators, 7, 80, 84, 184.
— permissible heading up, 85.
Remodellings of channels, 127.
— of outlets and watercourses, 131, 134.
Rest Houses, 95.
Reservoirs, 13.
Rules for designing canals, Kennedy’s, 48.
Scheme, cost of, 28, 59.
Sides, falling in of, 139.
Sidhnai canal minors, 41.
Silt, clearance of, 97, 138, 139.
— deposit, 15, 97.
— trapping at Headworks, 47.
Silting and scouring, 15, 48, 98, 139.
Sirhind Canal, 19, 144.
— — silting in the head reach of, 98.
Soil, water-logging of, 10, 24, 102.
Spoil Banks, 52, 57.
Subdivisions, canal, 95.
Subdivisional officer, 96.
Suboverseer, 96.
Superintending Engineer, 96.
Supply carried, 100.
— distribution of, 14, 118.
— mean and full, 27, 46, 122.
— regulation of, 103, 104, 106, 127.
Syphons, 7, 71, 87, 181.
Tailing of one channel into another, 40.
Telegraph, line of, 97.
Training of rivers, 33.
Trial lines, 58.
Trial pits, 58.
Triple canal project, 144.
Tunnels, 13.
Turns, or rotational periods of flow, 14, 118.
Type cross sections, 56.
Under-sluices, 32.
Upper Bari Doab Canal, 19, 144.
— Chenab Canal, 33, 144.
— Egypt, 11.
Upper Jhelum Canal, 50, 144.
Velocity, 12, 50.
Village lands, 62.
Watching banks, 175.
Water, payment for, 12, 100, 102, 142, 143.
Water level, fluctuation in, 100, 124.
Watercourse, limit of size of, 74.
Watercourses, 4, 20, 65.
— applications regarding, 140.
— for trees, 58.
— remodelling of, 131.
— with poor command, 67, 133, 166.
Waterings, 11, 24.
Water-logging of the soil, 10, 24, 102.
Wave, travel of, down a channel, 124.
Western America, canals in, 12.
— Jumna Canal, 31, 39.
Wing Walls, 89.
Works, arrangement of, 89.
— two or more close together, 89.
— urgent repairs of, 137.
Zilladar, 96.
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