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Irrigation and Drainage Equipment

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0177/01
Abbreviation ZIO
Course title Irrigation and Drainage Equipment
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vojtěch Václavík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Legislative documents for the design and maintenance of irrigation and drainage equipment.
2. Hydrological data for the design of irrigation and drainage equipment.
3. Significance and use of irrigation. Types of irrigation.
4. Sprinkler irrigation.
5. Micro-irrigation.
6. Irrigation of grass areas.
7. Golf course irrigation and gravity irrigation.
8. Wetting. Determination of runoff - surface, underground.
9. Drainage equipment - channels.
10. Drainage equipment - protective dams.
11. Drainage equipment - drainage pumping station.
12. Drainage equipment - horizontal drainage, ditch drainage.
13. Assessment of erosive vulnerability of land. Recommended measures against water erosion.

Literature

LAZAROVA, Valentina a Akica BAHRI. Water Reuse for Irrigation. CRP Press, 2005. ISBN 1-56670-649-1 .
SEILER, Ralph Leslie. Irrigation-induced contamination of water, sediment, and biota in the western United States - synthesis of data from the National Irrigation Water Quality Program. Denver: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2003. U.S. Geological Survey professional paper, 1655. ISBN 0-607-89024-X

Advised literature

Irrigation and drainage. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001-. ISSN 1531-0353 
JENKINS, Thomas E. Aeration Control System Design. WILEY ACADEMIC, 2014. ISBN 9781118389980 .