- Show all
- Asset Management
- Buoy
- Canal
- Climate Change
- Controls
- Dam Safety
- Fish and Aquatic Resources
- Future Grid
- Generator
- Hydraulic Forecasting
- Hydraulic Optimization
- Hydrokinetic
- Intake Gates
- Markets
- Penstock
- Regulatory Process
- Renewable Integration
- Shoreline and Riparian Resources
- Spillgates
- Tidal
- Turbine
- Water Resources
- Water Systems
- Wave
Conventional Hydro
Seepage Detection and Characterization in a Truckee Canal Site using L-band Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology
Lead Companies
Bureau of Reclamation
Lead Researcher (s)
- 19258
Reclamation alone holds tens of thousands of miles of in-service water conveyance canals within its infrastructure inventory. Many of these canal systems have aged beyond their original intended life-span, are showing signs of aging and disrepair, extensive seepage and embankment failure events are becoming increasingly common, and consequences of canal failures within urban corridors are constantly increasing due to urban encroachment on these water conveyance structures. In addition to the problem of increased risk related to canal embankment failures, concentrated and distributed seepage poses a major challenge to water conservation due to significant water conveyance system losses. An ongoing need to identify and comprehensively characterize and quantify canal seepage, both for safety related and water conservation efforts, is the main motivation for this proposed research. Existing capabilities of Reclamation team members include field and lab data collection and analysis expertise, modeling expertise, required background/supportive data and information knowledge and access, and site-specific knowledge and access permissions. Non-Reclamation team members will bring SAR data analysis expertise, and hydrologic modeling expertise, and access to critical and supportive data and prior/ongoing research results. This is cutting-edge seepage-related research that makes use of interdisciplinary collaborative research coordination with top scientists within each participating field.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Water Conveyance
Research Sub-Category
Canal
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2020
Don’t see your project?
Research Submission
Is there an existing study that you don’t see in the portal? Just let us know by submitting it.