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  • Question
  • Water-shed line is abondened for aligning an irrigation canal if


  • Options
  • A. water shed forms a sharp loop
  • B. canal has to take off from a river
  • C. towns and villages are located on the water shed line
  • D. all the above.

  • Correct Answer
  • all the above. 


  • Irrigation problems


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    • 1. In a canal syphon, the flow is

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    • A. under atmospheric pressure
    • B. pipe flow
    • C. with critical velocity
    • D. under negative pressure.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Pick up the correct statement from the following

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    • A. In a level crossing, a crest with its top at the canal F.S.L. is provided across the drainage at its up-stream junction with canal
    • B. In a level crossing a regulator is provided across the drainage at its down-stream
    • C. In a level crossing, a cross regulator is provided on the canal below the crossing
    • D. All the above.
    • Discuss
    • 3. The sinuosity of a meander is the ratio of

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    • A. meander length and the width of meander
    • B. meander length and half width of the river
    • C. curved length and the straight distance
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 4. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. Culturable commanded area is the gross area of an irrigation canal system less

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    • A. populated area
    • B. alkaline area
    • C. forest area
    • D. fallow land.
    • Discuss
    • 5. For a given discharge in a channel, Blench curves give the relationship between the loss of head (HL) and

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    • A. specific energy up-stream
    • B. specific energy down-stream
    • C. critical depth of water down-stream
    • D. depth of water down-stream
    • Discuss
    • 6. The depth of rice root zone, is

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    • A. 50 cm
    • B. 60 cm
    • C. 70 cm
    • D. 80 cm
    • E. 90 cm
    • Discuss
    • 7. Fundamental momentum equation for a hydraulic jump, is

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
    • Discuss
    • 8. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following

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    • A. Side walls of a venturi head flume are splayed out from the end of the throat at 1 : 10 for a length of 4.5 m
    • B. Length of side walls should be such that the width of the flume is made equal to 2/3rd the bed width of the distributary
    • C. Once the width of the flume becomes 2/3rd of the width of the distributary, the splayed walls are increased to 1 in 3 to get full bed width
    • D. None of these.
    • Discuss
    • 9. When a canal flowing under pressure is carried below a natural drainage such that its F.S.L. does not touch the underside of the supporting structure, the structure so provided, is called

    • Options
    • A. syphon
    • B. aqueduct
    • C. super passage
    • D. syphon-aqueduct.
    • Discuss
    • 10. For the stability of a structure against seepage pressure according to Khosla's creep theory, the critical gradient is

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    • A. zero
    • B. 0.25
    • C. 0.50
    • D. 0.75
    • E. 1.00
    • Discuss


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