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Groundwater potential for pump irrigation : Sawankhalok project - zone II, Sukhothai, Thailand

AuthorIslam, Nurul
Call NumberAIT Thesis no. WA-79-14
Subject(s)Water balance (Hydrology)--Thailand--Sawankhalok Project Zone II

NoteA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
AbstractThe study was intended to appraise the available groundwater resources in relation to the crop requirement of the Sukhothai project area zone II. In doing so, the long term average annual. groundwater recharge to the Yom basin is calculated from water balance computation - in which measured rainfall and estimated evapotranspiration and stream flow data are used. Modified Penman equation as well as class A pan evaporation data are used to predict potential evapotranspiration. Area proportion method is used to estimate local inflow to river and thus river flow at Yom basin outlet at Pho Thale. The amount of natural groundwater recharge is estimated to about 10 cm/ year for the whole basin. For full scale development of the area, induced recharge from the Nan and Yom river is computed by image well theory and is found to be about 40 percent of pumping rate in which the maximum pumpage is 5. 55 m3 / sec per 100 wells. In this computation the 100 multiple well system is replaced by an equivalent single well. Four alternative cropping patterns are tried to compute monthly and annual project supply requirement - out of which one is selected on the basis of maximum productivity and minimum water requirement. For this cropping pattern, the annual project requirement is about 42 cm per year. The results are interpreted in terms of the available water resources - the natural and induced recharge.
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Year1980
TypeThesis
SchoolSchool of Engineering and Technology
DepartmentDepartment of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE)
Academic Program/FoSWater Resources Research Engineering (WA)
Chairperson(s)Tawatchai Tingsanchali
Examination Committee(s)Overbeek, Henk Jen ;Gupta, Ashim Das ;Apichart Anukularmphai ;
Scholarship Donor(s)The Government of The Netherlands ;
DegreeThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1980


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