FLOOD MANAGEMENT AND RIVER ENGINEERING (CE 805) 8th sem (for secA &B )

Date: 16/04/20

Classification of river training works:

On the basis of the purpose required river training works can be classified as-

1) High water training

2) Low water training

3) Mean water training

1) High water training: It is also called training for discharge. The river is trained to provide sufficient
and efficient cross-sectional area for the expeditious passage of maximum flood. It concerns mainly
with alignment and height of embankment for a given flood discharge.

2) Low water training: In this case the river is trained to provide sufficient depth for navigation
during low stage of river. This is also called training for depth and is usually achieved by contraction
of the width of the channel.

3) Mean water training: In this case the river is trained to correct the configuration of river bed for
the efficient transport of sediment load in order to keep the channel in good shape.It is also called
training for sediment.

Out of the various kinds of training, mean water training is the most important training. Any attempt
to change the configuration of river bed in alignment or in cross-section must obviously by designed
in accordance with that stage of the river at which maximum movement of sediment takes place.
The river is most active during high stage which persists for a very short duration and is practically
inert at low stage which persists for a very long duration. Somewhere between these two there is a
stage at which the combined effect of forces causing sediment and the time for which such forces
are maintained is maximum. The maximum bed building stage is somewhere in the neighbourhood
of mean water. Mean water training, therefore, forms the basis on which both high and low water
training are planned.