Course detail

Watershed protection and Drainage

FAST-0S5Acad. year: 2020/2021

 History and development of drainage structures, need and asset of drainage structures. watershed protection in water management and agriculture, drainage theory, surface and underground runoff, hydrotechnical calculations, modelling of the drainage process, design, operation and use of drainage structures
 Theory of erosion processes, erosion factors, runoff modelling, consequences of concentrated runoff, water sources protection, water courses protection

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Department

Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The student will obtain information about detailed theoretical and practical introduction with complex system of erosion control and flood control in the watershed and drainage, focused on digital solution of complex project of watershed protection and drainage with the use of GIS.

Prerequisites

Hydrology, landscape water management

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1.Introduction of subject
2.Drainage assessment, water regime of wet soils
3.Kinds of drainage, surface drainage channel and its arrangement
4.Drainage, arrangement,deep and spacing of drains
5.Special kinds of drainage, konstruction of drains, parameters of drains
6.Erosion, kinds of soil erosion, causes and consequenses
7.Erosion factors,Wishmeier USLE equation
8.Rain fall factors, K- soil erodibility factors, LS-topografic factors
9.Erosion and sediment transport modells
10. SCS runoff curve number methods
11.Complex soil and water conservation
12.Technical and biotechnical methodes
13.Terraces
14.Water resource protection, protection zone, revized zones

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Detailed theoretical and practical introduction with complex system of erosion control and flood control in the watershed and drainage, focused on digital solution of complex project of watershed protection and drainage with the use of GIS.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BLAHA, J., KLEMENTOVÁ, E.: Odvodňovacie stavby. ES SVŠT Bratislava
HOLÝ, M. a kol.: Odvodňovací stavby. SNTL Praha 1984

Recommended reading

DUMBROVSKÝ, M. a kol.: Doporučený systém protierozní ochrany v rámci procesu pozemk. VÚMOP Praha 1995

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

39 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer