CDM 3205: Integrated
Water Resources
Management
Chapter 2.2: Hydraulic
Structure
Md. Arif Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
Department of Climate and
Disaster Management
Jashore University of Science and
Technology
Spillway
Spillways are structures
constructed to provide
safe release of flood
waters from a dam to a
downstream area
✓Controlled spillways have gates, allowing humans to open and/or shut these
gates, thus managing the release of water.
✓Uncontrolled spillways can be viewed as “fill and spill”. Once the reservoir
reaches a certain, pool height, water spills over the structure.
Bridge
From a hydraulic
perspective, a bridge is
defined as:
• A structure built over a
depression or obstacle for
a passageway.
• Part of a stream crossing
system that includes the
approach roadway across
the floodplain and any
openings.
Economic Impacts of Bridges
• Useful for shipping raw materials and goods.
• Wages earned after a bridge is built goes to the
development arena.
• Bridges build an excellent relationship between
where there is good money there are authentic
goods.
• When a bridge is built it might cause you initial
problems but later, big transport can use it, so
there are fewer accidents, fewer traffic jams, and
less pollution.
• When roads are made between rivers it become
harmful to nature.
• The proper drainage system will make sure there
is no clogged-up path during monsoon.
• When big transports can move faster, goods will
be delivered sooner.
Culvert
• A culvert is a tunnel
carrying a stream under
a road or railway.
• A culvert may act as a
bridge for traffic to pass
on it.
• They are typically found
in a natural flow of
water and serve the
purpose of a bridge or a
current flow controller.
Materials for Culvert
Construction
• Surrounded by soil, a
culvert may be made from
a pipe, reinforced concrete,
or other material.
• The selection of material
depends on:
✓Structure strength
✓Hydraulic efficiency
✓Installation, local
construction practices
✓Durability
✓Cost
The main materials
for culvert
construction are:
• Steel
• Structural Steel
Plate (SSP)
• Corrugated Steel
Pipe (CSP)
• Aluminum pipes
• Concrete
• High - density
polyethylene (HDPE)
Silt control devices
• Silt control at head works
• Entry of silt to canal can be controlled
by Providing a divide wall to Create a
trap or pocket
• Create scouring capacity of under
sluices By concentrating the currents
towards them
• Paving the bottom the approach
channel to reduce disturbance because
due to disturbance sediment remains in
suspension
• The water flowing over the spillways acquires a lot of kinetic
Energy energy by the time it reaches near the toe of spillway (because
of conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy)
dissipators • To dissipate this huge kinetic energy of water and reduce large
scale of scouring the structural arrangement is made is called
as energy dissipators.
