Groundwater and Well Engineering detailed syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Agri students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Agriculture Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Agri 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Agri Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of groundwater and well engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
GROUND WATER OCCURRENCE Occurrence of groundwater, temporal and spatial variability of groundwater, methods for groundwater exploration, determination of aquifer parameters, pumping tests, assessment of groundwater potential
Unit II
WELL CONSTRUCTION Groundwater structures, groundwater development and utilization, types of water wells, design and construction of water wells, drilling methods, well development, well maintenance and rehabilitation, groundwater monitoring, monitoring wells, design and construction of monitoring wells
Unit III
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Unit IV
GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT Management of declining and rising water table, Natural and artificial groundwater recharge, Groundwater recharge basins and injection wells. Groundwater management in irrigation command, conjunctive water use, water lifting, different types of pumps, selection of pumps, pump characteristics curve, cost of groundwater pumping, comparative economics of surface and groundwater use for irrigation
Unit V
GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT POLICIES Major issues related to groundwater development and management in India, Legal aspects of groundwater exploitation, Diagnostic survey of sick wells/tube wells and their rehabilitation.
Text Books:
- Walton, W.C. 1976. Groundwater Resource Evaluation. Mc Graw Hill. New York.
- Karanth, K.R. 1987. Groundwater Assessment, Development and Management. Tata- mcgraw Hill. New Delhi.
- Michael, A.M. and Khepar, S.D. 1989. Water Well and Pump Engineering. Tata-mcgraw Hill Publ. Co. New Delhi.
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Course Outcomes:
- The students will be able to describe the concepts of aquifer parameters
- The students will be able to describe the components involved in Groundwater structures
- The students will be able to describe the Groundwater development and quality considerations
- The students will be able to describe the Management of declining and rising water table
- The students will be able to prioritize and execute the Groundwater development programme
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