- Preface
- Introduction
- Importance of drainage and irrigation
- Status of drainage and irrigation in Ohio, Midwest
- Merging of drainage and irrigation
- Water table management
- Urban/rural/agricultural interface
- Environmental impacts and benefits of drainage and irrigation
- Water quantity (hydrologic cycle, runoff, stream flow,
infiltration, etc.
- Water quality (sediment, plant nutrients, pesticides)
- Ecosystems & wetlands
- Plants (crop yield and quality, growth/stress conditions, disease
control)
- Roads and residential
- Plant factors (growth curves, consumptive use, critical stress
conditions/stages, rooting
depth, frost protection, water use efficiency, nutrient use
efficiency, etc.)
- Agricultural crops
- Fruits and vegetables
- Nursery crops
- Turf and landscape
- Soil factors
- Soil/water/plant/air relationships
- Water movement in soils
- Nutrient movement in soils
- Soil properties important for drainage
- Soil properties important for irrigation
- Special cases (compaction, muck soils, soil stability, etc.)
- Landscape factors (topography, etc.)
- Drainage engineering design
- System outlet
- System design: grades, capacities, etc.
- Surface
- Subsurface
- Combination
- Special cases
- Residential (curtain drains, perimeter drains)
- Controlled drainage engineering design
- System design: Drainage materials and equipment
- Irrigation engineering design
- Water and power supply
- System design
- Overhead
- Micro
- Special cases
- Frost protection
- Lawn and garden
- High temperature control
- Humidity control
- Subirrigation engineering design
- System design: Irrigation materials and equipment
- Systems operations and management
- Drainage, controlled drainage, subirrigation
- Tillage system
- Cropping system
- Nutrient and pesticide management
- Precision farming
- Water measurements and control
- System maintenance
- Irrigation
- Tillage system
- Cropping system
- Nutrient and pesticide management
- Precision farming
- Water measurements and control
- Irrigation scheduling
- System maintenance
- Economics of water management
- Cost/benefit analysis for drainage
- Cost/benefit analysis for irrigation: Waste water
- Liquid manure
- Municipal waste water
- Private waste water
- Drainage water
- Stormwater management
- Quantity
- Quality
- Computer technology and applications
- System design software
- Database software
- Geographical information systems (GIS)
- Global positioning systems (GPS)
- Expert systems
- Legal Considerations
- Water rights
- Water use
- Disposal of excess water
- Clean Water Act
- Section 401 and 404 permits
- USDA provisions
- US Army Corps of Engineers
- Drainage problems and solutions
- Drainage laws
- Assessments
- Maintenance
- Cost allocation
- Procedures
- Safety
- Ohio Utilities Protection Service
- OSHA
- Excavation and trench safety
- Disease control in use of waste water
- Glossary of terms
- References
- Appendices:
- Soil factors
- Ohio soils
- Drainage parameters (coefficients, spacing, depth, sizes,
etc.)
- Hydric soils
- Irrigation factors
- Subject Index
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