Journal of Range and Watershed Managment

Technical assessment of watershed operating steps in sologan aquifers basin

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

golaleh ghaffari
Hasan Ahmadi
Omid Bahmani
Ali Akbar Nazari Samani
https://doi.org/10.22059/jrwm.2017.61974
Abstract
Although more than 45 years has passed since the first time operating watershed projects were run inside the country and considering the increasing budget that is being allocated to such projects, terrible soil erosion, natural resource degradation and the dazzling and painful consequences of such events are indicative of low efficiency and failure of natural resource protection projects. Therefore, since watershed projects involve many agents and management needs to be as effective as possible, assessment of how suuccessfully the project objectives have been realized is essential. The sologhan aquifer’s basin with an area of 20571 hectar is one of the basins in which watershed project was carried out in winter 2000. To assess the effectiveness of the above mentioned project, required statics and data was collected and the accuracy of meteorology and hydrology data was examined and the double mass curve, annual hydrograph comparisons, hydrologic analysis, sediment examination in dry and moist periods, sediment graph, studding the amount of sediment in precipitation periods prior and post projects implementation were considered and used. Double mass curve shows the positive effects of this operation on the amount of runoff and sediment. Hydrologic regime curves show as well that watershed operations had positive impacts upon the basins hydrologic reaction to rain so that the amount of runoff as a result of similar amount of precipitation has decreased. Furthermore, the amount of annual suspended load has decreased from 47892.56 to 22365 tons, so did the amount of Debbi and sediment. Above results prove the positive effects of watershed projects.

Keywords

operating assessment
aquifer's basin
watershed projects
Suspended sediment load
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Journal of Range and Watershed Managment
Volume 70, Issue 1
Spring 2017
Pages 169-180

  • Receive Date 14 May 2017
  • Revise Date 19 June 2017
  • Accept Date 19 June 2017
  • Publish Date 22 May 2017

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