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  • Question
  • The width of a dowla is generally kept between 30 to 60 cm and its height above the road level should invariably be more than


  • Options
  • A. 10 cm
  • B. 20 cm
  • C. 30 cm
  • D. 40 cm

  • Correct Answer
  • 30 cm 


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    • 1. If water table is comparatively high, the irrigation canal becomes useless, due to

    • Options
    • A. large amount of seepage
    • B. water logging of the cultivated areas
    • C. uncertain water demand
    • D. spread of malaria
    • E. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 2. The level of the fioor of a syphon aqueduct can be obtained

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    • 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
    • 3. 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
    • 4. For standing crops in undulating sandy fields, the best method of irrigation, is

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    • A. sprinkler irrigation
    • B. free flooding
    • C. check method
    • D. furrow method
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 5. 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.
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    • 6. Pick up the correct statement from the following:

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    • A. Water table generally follows the ground surface above it with a few exceptions
    • B. Static level of water in an open well indicates the position of the water table
    • C. Saturated pores of a soil in the capillary zone above water table have negative pressure
    • D. At water table, hydrostatic pressure is zero
    • E. All the above.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Effective precipitation for a crop may be defined as

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    • A. total precipitation minus the loss due to evaporation
    • B. total precipitation minus the loss due to infiltration
    • C. total precipitation during the crop period
    • D. available water stored in soil within root zone of the crop.
    • Discuss
    • 8. Process of meandering is due to

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    • A. sediment load of streams
    • B. discharge and hydraulic properties of streams
    • C. relative erodibility of the bed and banks
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 9. Cross regulators in main canals are provided

    • Options
    • A. to regulate water supply in the distributaries
    • B. to increase water head upstream when a main canal is running with low supplies
    • C. to overflow excessive flow water
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Disposal of extra excavated earth of canals, is utilised to provide a spoil bank on

    • Options
    • A. left side
    • B. right side
    • C. both sides
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss


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