CANAL FALLS

A drop (or fall) structure is a regulating structure which lowers the water level along its course.
The slope of a canal is usually milder than the terrain slope as a result of which the canal in a cutting at
its head works will soon outstrip the ground surface.
In order to avoid excessive infilling the bed level of the downstream canal is lowered, the two reaches
being connected by a suitable drop structure
When a canal crosses an area that has a larger natural surface slope, a canal drop or fall has to be
provided suitably at certain intervals.
A drop in a natural canal bed will not be stable and a masonry structure is constructed in order to retain
this drop. Such a pucca structure is called a Canal Fall.

 The ancient people always tried to avoid falls by aligning canals along zig-zag route in order to increase
the length of the canal and thus dissipate the excess energy head in friction.
The Eastern Yamuna Canal constructed by Mughal Emperors had no falls, and the canal, followed a
sinuous path.
The falls were first constructed by the British in India in the nineteenth century.

TYPES OF FALLS
Ogee Fall

Rapid Fall

SARDA TYPE FALL

SARDA TYPE FALL