Water retention in a small agricultural catchment and its potential improvement by designing of water reservoirs – a case study of the Bílý potok catchment (Czechia)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027049%3A_____%2F18%3AN0000048" target="_blank" >RIV/00027049:_____/18:N0000048 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/euco-2018-0001" target="_blank" >10.2478/euco-2018-0001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Water retention in a small agricultural catchment and its potential improvement by designing of water reservoirs – a case study of the Bílý potok catchment (Czechia)

Original language description

Water retention in the landscape is discussed in the context of conservation and improvement of both its productive and non-productive functions. We analysed the retention potential of a small agricultural catchment associated with the Bílý potok brook, investigating the possibility to improve its retention capacity and slow down the surface runoff, thus increasing the underground water resources. Method of curve numbers was used for that purposes. From results emerged that present maximum water retention in the Bílý potok catchment is 96.2 mm. It could increase by 101.3 mm in case of grassing about 20% arable land threatened by soil erosion. As next possibility to detain water from precipitations in landscape, capacity and transformation effect of reservoirs designed in master plans was analysed. The latest programming tools working in the GIS environment were used to assess the retention capacity of both the catchment surface and the reservoirs. Analysing master plans in the catchment, it was found out that 16 designed water reservoirs (from 31) have a good potential to intercept water and transform flood discharges. In result, priority for building of reservoirs was recommended according to their pertinence and efficiency in the studied catchment. Presented complex approach can be widely implemented, especially for better effectivity and cohesion of landscape planning and land consolidations processes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10501 - Hydrology

Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1620040" target="_blank" >QJ1620040: Optmization of water and soil protection in water source basins considering maintainable systems of agricultural management</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Countryside

ISSN

1803-8417

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

1-22

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045320654