Course detail

The Watershed protection

FAST-DS55Acad. year: 2024/2025

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

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

Department

Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)

Entry knowledge

Hydrology,hydropedology, watermanagement of the landscape

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

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

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

FLANAGAN, D.C. a M.A. NEARING: Water erosion prediction project: Hillslope profile and watershed model documentation [online]. USDA 2009
JANEČEK, M. a kol: Ochrana zemědělské půdy před erozí. ČZU Praha, 2012
MORGAN, R.P.C. a NEARING, M.A: Handbook of Erosion Modelling. London: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011
TOY, T.J., FOSTER, G.R. a RENARD, K.G: Soil erosion: processes, prediction, measurement and control.. New York: Wiley 2002

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

Syllabus

Introduction of subject Erosion, kinds of soil erosion, causes and consequenses Erosion factors,Wishmeier USLE equation Rain fall factors, K- soil erodibility factors, LS-topografic factors Erosion and sediment transport modells SCS runoff curve number methods Complex soil and water conservation Technical and biotechnical methodes 13.Terraces 14.Water resource protection, protection zone, revized zones