Given data

1 RL of river bed 100 m

2 RL of LFL 102 m
3 RL of NWL 115 m
4 RL of HFL 120 m
5 Population 50000
6 Avg. water demand 200 lpcd
Plan
2m LWL
i. Water Requirement

Avg. water demand for the whole population per day 10 MLD RB
Max. water demand per day 18 MLD
Assuming pumping for 16 hrs or 16 hrs operation of the intake 0.3125 cumecs

ii. Design of inlet well

a) Shape Oblong 2.8 m

No. of openings 3
Diameter of bar screens for openings 20 mm (16 - 20)
Clear opening of the bars 50 mm
Limiting flow through velocity (bar screens) 0.16 m/s
Area of the openings required. 1.953 sq. m.
Assume height of opening as 1 m 1m
Clear length of the opening 1.953 m
Clear spacing of a single opening 0.05 m
No. of openings reqd. (single bar) 39
No. of bars 38
Length occupied by a single bar 20 mm 5 cm 1.953 m
Total length occupied by bars 0.7600 m (no. of bars * bar thickness)
Total length of the screen (reqd) 2.80 m

b) No. of levels where openings are to be provided 3

No. of ports at each level 2
Total No. of ports 6
Height of a single port 1 m 115
Length of each port 1.4 m 114
Length of the intake well (1.4+1.4+0.2+1+1) 5 m
Width of the intake well 2 m
Freeboard (1.5 to 3 m) 2 m

iii. Design of Gravity pipe and jack well

Max. velocity (Not below 0.9 m/s) 1.2 m/s

Area of the pipe 0.26 sq. m.
Diameter of the pipe 0.6 m
Check for velocity 1.10 m/s (>0.9 m/s) O.k.
Slope for gravity flow (by Manning's Eqn) 0.004677 1 in 214
Manning's n 0.017

to jack well 600 mm RCC pipe

2m

1m 3m 1m

PLAN
2 ports at 3 levels

Roof

FB (RL 122)

2m

HFL (RL 120)

1m

NWL (RL 115)

 1m

1.4 m 1.4 m

1m 1m

Intake pipe to jack well

LFL (RL 102)

1m 1 in 200

RIVERBED (RL 100)

2m
3m

Foundation Bed (RL 97)