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  • While deciding the alignment of a proposed canal taking off from a river at B, three alignments of approximately equal lengths are available. These cross a drainages at C1, C2 and C3 where drainage bed levels C1 > C2 > C3, you will provide at site C3


  • Options
  • A. an aqueduct
  • B. a syphon aqueduct
  • C. a super passage
  • D. a syphon.

  • Correct Answer
  • an aqueduct 


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    • 1. The uplift pressure on the roof of an inverted syphon, is maximum when

    • Options
    • A. drain in running dry
    • B. canal is running dry
    • C. canal is running with F.S.L.
    • D. drain is running with H.F.L.
    • Discuss
    • 2. In rigid module, the discharge

    • Options
    • A. is independent of water levels in the distributary and water course
    • B. depends upon the water level in distributary
    • C. depends upon the water level in the water course
    • D. depends upon the water levels of both, i.e. distributary and water course
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 3. A land is said to be water-logged if its soil pores within

    • Options
    • A. a depth of 40 cm are saturated
    • B. a depth of 50 cm are saturated
    • C. root zone of the crops are saturated
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 4. If A is the area of the surface, x is the depth of its C.G. from the surface of the water and ? is the density of water, then

    • Options
    • A. total pressure on the surface is equal to ? x
    • B. depth of the point at which total pressure acts is equal to its moment of inertia divided by A x
    • C. depth of the centre of pressure is 2/3H vertically below the surface
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 5. The ratio of the discharge over a trapezoidal crest to a rectangular crest of Sarda falls of identical parameters, is

    • Options
    • A. 1.084
    • B. 1.074
    • C. 1.064
    • D. 1.054
    • E. 2.053
    • Discuss
    • 6. A fall which maintains its depth, is

    • Options
    • A. a trapezoidal notch fall
    • B. a low weir fall
    • C. a rectangular notch fall
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 7. If the height of the hydraulic gradient line above the floor of thickness t is h and the specific gravity of the material of the floor is G, the minimum thickness t of the floor down stream of the crestwall, is given by the equation

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
    • Discuss
    • 8. For standing crops in undulating sandy fields, the best method of irrigation, is

    • Options
    • A. sprinkler irrigation
    • B. free flooding
    • C. check method
    • D. furrow method
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 9. To hold hydraulic jumps, baffle walls are provided in

    • Options
    • A. Sarda type falls
    • B. English type falls
    • C. Montague type falls
    • D. Vertical type falls.
    • Discuss
    • 10. The level of the fioor of a syphon aqueduct can be obtained

    • Options
    • A. by subtracting the depth of the culvert from the canal bed level
    • B. by subtracting the thickness of culvert plus the depth of the culvert from the canal bed level
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss


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