Course Details

Drainage and Landscape Protection

Academic Year 2024/25

BSA004 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 3rd year

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

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Hydraulics, hydrology

Aims

Erosion, surface and underground runoff, river basin organization, ponds
Student gains knowledge about erosion, surface and subsurface runoff, organization of drainage area

Basic Literature

Holý M, a kol - Eroze a životní prostředí, ČVUT Praha 1998 (cs)
Morgan, R.P.C. Soil Erosion and Conservation. Third Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2005, 304 p. ISBN 1-4051-1781-8 (cs)
Janeček, M., a kol. (2012). Ochrana zemědělské půdy před erozí. Metodika PEO. Praha: Powerprint. ISBN 978-80-87415-42-9.. (cs)
DUMBROVSKÝ, M.; SOBOTKOVÁ, V.; ŠARAPATKA, B.; CHLUBNA, L.; VÁCHALOVÁ, R. Cost-effectiveness evaluation of model design variants of broad-base terrace in soil erosion control. ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, 2014, roč. 68, č. 2014, s. 260-269. ISSN: 0925-8574. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281750

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Erosion in the world – classification of erosion, factor influencing erosion, intensity and acceptable limit.
  • 2. Modelling of erosion processes – classification of models, Universal soil loss equation, theoretic analysis of water erosion, great river basins.
  • 3. Assessment of erosion hazard level – complex research and analysis of a watershed.
  • 4. Design of erosion control measures – classification and description. Basic dimensioning rules of erosion control items.
  • 5. Determination of surface runoff parameters – simplifying preconditions, methods of culmination runoff and flood volume calculation in small watersheds.
  • 6.Torrents control – flow erosion, analysis of reasons and consequences, erosion control measures, principles of dimensioning and assessment of measures layout.
  • 7. Wind erosion – analysis of the process, forms of erosion, determination of intensity, layout of erosion control measures.
  • 8. Drainage – reasons, occurrence and assessment of waterlogging, distribution and movement of water in soil.
  • 9. Modelling of water movement in soil – classification of models, features, saturated and unsaturated porous environment, groundwater runoff.
  • 10. Main drainage facilities – classification, design principles, dimensioning of facilities.
  • 11. Detailed drainage facility – classification, design principles, determination of drainage parameters, dimensioning of pipe drainage.
  • 12. Special drainage – sloping areas, sportgrounds, design principles, schema. Influence of drainage on the landscape.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–6. Calculation of erosion and the proposal of new river basin organization
  • 7.–12. Calculation of surface and underground runoff, proposal of drainage structures