Small Canal Lining Equipment

Generally, small canals cover everything from concrete-lined irrigation ditches with bottom widths (BW) as narrow as 30cm (12 in.) up to branch/distributary or even small main canals up to a maximum size of approximately 2.43m (8 ft.) deep and 2.0m (7 ft.) bottom width. Typically canals of this size range are built on a prepared and compacted fill berm) built with conventional earth-moving equipment. Canals of this size are built full section/span in a single pass and typically have side slopes of 1:1, 1 ¼:1, and 1 ½:1.