• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.47-56
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• 1999

The concentration and load of T-N and T-P in paddy field areas in Chongwon, Chungbuk , Korea , were investigated during the irrigation period. The concentration of T-N and T-P in ponded water in paddies is higher than that in the irrigation, drainage and percolation waters. For T-N, the average concentration indrainage water was higher than that in irrigation water until end of Jung, But lower thereafter. The average T-N concentration in irrigation water was 2.3 ∼3.2mg/l and therefore the agricultural water quality standard at on-farm level for T-N should be established realistically . The expontial L(load)-Q(discharge) equations have higher coefficients of determination than the linear L-Q equations . Especially, the exponential L-Q equation of T_N showed a coefficient of determinatino of over 0.9 for irrigation water.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.42
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

To examine the irrigation water uses in Sunjin river basin, existing status and operation records of headworks facilities including reservoirs, pumping stations, tube wells, and diversion dams were surveyed and analyzed for the period of 1994∼1998. Daily irrigation demand and water use were estimated for the irrigated paddy field using penman equation, Thank model, reservoir water balance model and daily pumping rate of pumping stations. Irrigation water use from multi-purpose dams in the basin was not included in this study.

• Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.123-128
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• 2012

Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) is most widely used in golf courses and athletic fields. Weakness of Kentucky bluegrass is shallow root zone and has weak tolerance to shade. One of the biggest disadvantages is high demand of water. Water content is important factor to maintain excellent color and quality of turfgrass. There are two irrigation methods which are 'deep and infrequent (DI)' and 'Light and frequent (LI)'. The objective of the study is to investigate Kentucky bluegrass growth treated by different irrigation frequency. Three irrigation frequency were made; no irrigation, every other day, and weekly. The same amount of water was used between every other day and weekly irrigation except no irrigation. No irrigation mean no artificial water supply and precipitation only. No irrigation treatment produced turfgrass quality lower than acceptable rating of six in July and August. Under the weather condition of 2011, no irrigation could not maintained acceptable turfgrass quality. No significant differences were found for Kentucky bluegrass quality between DI and LI.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.63 no.3
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• pp.59-73
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to investigate transition of pumping technology, irrigation water requirement, and unit area drainage discharge at the Pumping station-based Irrigation Associations (PIAs) in South Korea during Japanese colonial period (1910-1945). The PIAs established pumping stations and embankments along rivers for the purpose of irrigation, drainage and flood prevention until the mid-1920s. From the late 1920s after major river improvement projects, newly established PIAs did not include the flood prevention in their purpose of establishment. The design criteria of the irrigation and drainage projects, such as irrigation water requirements, design rainfall, and allowable ponding duration were decided according to the circumstances of PIAs. The gross irrigation water requirement of paddy fields increased from the 1920s to the 1940s, and reached the level of 0.0020 m³/s/ha (19 mm/d) in the 1940s for the fairly good irrigation status in the drought. The great floods of 1930, 1933, and 1934 triggered the increase in drainage discharge in the late 1930s, leading to the unit area drainage discharge of 0.9-2.6 m³/s/km² for natural drainage and 0.3-1.1 m³/s/km² for pump drainage. Therefore, several PIAs near the major rivers could avoid repetitive floods damage.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.13-21
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• 2008

Water losses in irrigation canals are mainly estimated as the sum of conveyance and delivery water loss. The losses occur via the evaporation, infiltration, gate operation and water distribution processing. Recently, the study regarding these water losses are not satisfactory enough, also delivery water loss has not been mainly considered on field design. The objective of this study is to investigate and analyze the volume of water loss in irrigation canals considering condition of actual farm land. A field measurement was performed at four research sites, which are managed by Korea Rural Community & Agriculture Corporation, to evaluate conveyance and delivery water loss for 2 years. The measurement was performed by canal type, size and designed flow using the inflow-outflow method at a major points such as start and end of each canal, derivation point of canal and inlet of paddy fields. Results of this study showed that water loss ratio in lateral canals was bigger than that of main canal unlike current design standard and the loss decrease as flow increase. The total of water loss ratio including conveyance and delivery water loss in several irrigation canals ranged between 33.25 and 45.0%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2022

Climate change has continued to impact meteorological factors like rainfall in many countries including Nigeria. Thus, altering the rainfall patterns which subsequently affect the crop yield. Maize is an important cereal grown in northern Nigeria, along with sorghum, rice, and millet. Due to the challenge of water scarcity during the dry season, it has become critical to design appropriate strategies for planning, developing, and management of the limited available water resources to increase the maize yield. This study, therefore, determines the quantity of water required to produce maize from planting to harvesting and the impact of drought on maize during different growth stages in the region. Rainfall data from six rain gauge stations for a period of 36 years (1979-2014) was considered for the analysis. The standardized precipitation and evapotranspiration index (SPEI) is used to evaluate the severity of drought. Using the CROPWAT model, the evapotranspiration was calculated using the Penman-Monteith method, while the crop water requirements (CWRs) and irrigation scheduling for the maize crop was also determined. Irrigation was considered for 100% of critical soil moisture loss. At different phases of maize crop growth, the model predicted daily and monthly crop water requirements. The crop water requirement was found to be 319.0 mm and the irrigation requirement was 15.5 mm. The CROPWAT 8.0 model adequately estimated the yield reduction caused by water stress and climatic impacts, which makes this model appropriate for determining the crop water requirements, irrigation planning, and management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1996.06c
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• pp.257-262
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• 1996

Large amount of water is diverted annually for irrigation along the Yellow River. Owing to the tremendous sediment carried by the river , sediment deposits is an important problem in irrigation and drainage system. The sediment has to be taken out by machines from the irrigation system, otherwise water can not be available in the right place at the right time. In order to improve the sediment desilting efficiency, the sediments that settle in certain sites of a irrigation system must be removed by different desilting machines with special performance and working conditions. Those certain sites include : the diversion canal in the flood plain , the mouth of inlet, settling basin , irrigation and drainage system. In view of removal sediment above, the paper presents the ideas of type selection of desilting machines applied to certain sites. Proposals of making further improvement on performance for some desilting machines are also put forward.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.14-21
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• 1998

In 1996, a cold-water damage occured in the paddy field at downstream of the Unmoon dam. To study the cause and the preventive measures of the cold-water damage a field study was performed during the growing season of 1997. Field measurements such as water temperatures at reservoir, irrigation canal and in the paddy field were made. As a result, there was no cold-water damage due to the right irrigation water management practice in 1997. The cold-water damage is passible to happen, however, and the preventive measures were provided.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.47-50
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• 1999

From 1997 irrigation water withdraws has been surveyed for the purpose of river operation and management . Recently , the River Law was revised (1999.2.8) and obligate to water users to report their proposed and actual water withdrawals. If we can save more water from rice paddy area, we can use more water for municipal and industrial activity and we can expect water quality should be improved in the river. So the role of irrigation water use efficiency is more and more important.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.439-446
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• 2003

In this paper, the study area is selected Sungju Reservoir which was constructed with an agricultural purpose and determined the optimal water management plan among the five cases of classified irrigation area by using Linear Programming. As a results of reservoir operation, the additional water quantity of classified irrigation area showed 16.036${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$3/year, 19.404${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$/year, 18.864${\times}$100$\^$6/m$^3$/year, 4.032${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$/year and 0.672${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$/year and the total water supply quantity showed 69.628${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$/year, 70.048${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$/year, 67.979${\times}$10$\^$ 6/m$^3$/year, 67.979${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$/year, and 69.939${\times}$10$\^$6/m$^3$/year respectively. Therefore, the case-II was adopted with water management plan of optimum. It is also known that the maximum irrigation area augmentation effect appears in the case which will use the additional water quantity in field irrigation of the case-II which was adopted.