CE-402 Irrigation Engineering

05. Diversion Headworks

B.Sc. Civil Engineering 8th Semester

Muhammad Ajmal (PhD)

Lecturer
Agri. Engg. Deptt.
 Diversion Headworks
 Any hydraulic structure which supplies mostly silt free water with certain
minimum head into the off-taking canal is called a headwork.
 Diversion Headworks
 Headworks may be divided into two major classes:

1) Storage Headwork: It comprises the construction of a dam across the river. It stores
water during the period of excess supplies in the river and releases it when demand
exceeds available supply.

2) Diversion Headwork: It serves to divert the required supply into the canal from the
river. The objectives of this type of headworks are as following.

 It raises the water level in the river so that the commanded area can be increased.
 It regulates the intake of water into the canal.
 It controls the silt entry into the canal.
 It reduces fluctuations in the level of supply in the river.
Diversion Headworks
Diversion Headworks
 Components of Diversion Headworks

 The components of diversion headworks are:

 Weir or barrage
 Canal head regulator
 Divide Wall
 Fish Ladder
 Scouring Sluices Under sluices
 Silt excluder
 Silt ejector.
 Marginal embankment or dikes
 Guide bank
 Silt pocket or trap.
Components of Diversion Headworks
 Weir or Barrage
 Weir is a solid obstruction placed across the river.
Its main function is to raise the water level so that
water can be diverted from canal to crop field due
to head difference.

 Barrage is practically a low weir with an

adjustable gate over this low weir. Heading up
of water is affected by gate.
Weir
Weir
Barrage
Barrage
 Site Selection for Headworks

 To be continued in next class