Acknowledgments

Many industry partners have recognized the value of a facility such as thisand, as a result, have generously committed to the project with contributions ofequipment and services. These currently include:

As the project continues to develop, it is anticipated that many additionalpartners / contributors will also become more involved.

For further information, contact Lloyd Healy, Water Management Engineer. –Phone 403-382-4407 or e-mail Lloyd.Healy@gov.ab.ca.

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McCrometer Flow MetersMike Rettie Excavating Ltd.Muis Controls Ltd.New Way Irrigation Ltd.Oliver Irrigation Ltd.Optimum Instruments Inc.Precon Precast ProductsROM CommunicationsRubicon Systems Inc.Seametrics Flow MetersSiemens Canada Ltd.Sontek / YSI Inc.SRP ControlsSt. Mary River Irrigation DistrictTeledyne RD InstrumentsUnited Farmers of AlbertaVan Rijn Electric Ltd.Watch Technologies

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Partnering with Irrigated Agriculture

for Innovative Water Management Solutions

Partnering with Irrigated Agriculture

for Innovative Water Management Solutions

Partnering with Irrigated Agriculture

for Innovative Water Management Solutions

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In the water resource management business, it’s been said...“You can’t manage what you don’t measure!”

With Alberta’s supply of available irrigation water being stretched to an ever-increasing limit, theirrigation industry has become much more proactive in recognizing the need for better watermanagement through improved control and measurement.

The is an initiative of the WaterResources Branch of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD), to support the industry’smove to adopting enhanced water control and measurement systems.

This project has been made possible through the contributions by many Albertacompanies and agencies. The facility now offers the opportunity to:

1) Support applied research into new flow measurement and control techniques that can beapplicable to southern Alberta conditions.

2) Provide controlled testing of new measurement technologies to evaluate proposed equipment,systems or solutions.

3) Provide a facility for the demonstration of various flow measurement and control techniques,systems and equipment.

4) Provide a “benchmark” facility where the irrigation industry can have their own flowmeasurement equipment tested for accuracy and calibrated against more high-cost high-accuracy flow measurement components.

5) Support the testing and demonstration of water quality monitoring and sampling equipment.

“Water Measurement Demonstration and Testing Facility”

partnership

The site consists of a re-circulating water conveyancesystem as shown in the adjacentdiagram. Both the pipeline andopen channel infrastructure areaccessible for evaluating flowmeasurement technologies.

Along the pipeline, there areseveral measurement andcontrol points as well as accessvaults to the buried pipeline. Thisallows for both the temporaryand permanent installation ofvarious pipeline flowmeasurement devices that canbe tested, demonstrated orcalibrated.

The open channel section of theproject contains six precastconcrete panel controlstructures, four of which allow forthe temporary “drop-in / lift-out”installation of a wide variety offlow control and measurementcomponents, be they varioustypes of weirs, flumes or the like.The other two structures havebeen fitted with automatedcontrol gates, which controlwater levels for diversions intosimulated farm delivery turnoutsor lateral channels.

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Open metering vaultDynaSonics (BridgePump)

Stilling well

MagmeterBadger (Muis)

Pump

By-passriser

MagmeterSiemens (Delpro)

Armtec Ltd. overshot &slide control gates

AquaSystems 2000 Ltd.

Rubicon Gate Systems

Langemann gate/turnout

Broad-crested weir

Turn-out

Circular Flume (Armtec)- Lakewood Systems- HOBO logger- IMP Ultrasonic

Level Probe- Siemens LU Probe- Monoscan Probe

Turn-out

Hydrolox Screen Cleaner

Contracted rectangularweir

Coletanche Canal lining

Bosnak Welding walkway

demonstration

Cipoletti weir

Boardwalk

Horiba SDI multi-probe& ISCO water sampler(Avensys),ROM Communications

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Above-ground pipelinemetering test reach

(MACE Agriflo meterAq2000 LoPac meterSeametrics Ag2000Delpro Soemens magmeterSeametrics EX meterMcCrometer meterGreyline Inst. DFMIV meterAMCI RealtimeOptimum Inst. Inc.ROM Communications)

Seametrics Bullet Magmeter

DAVIS weather station

Alberta Environmenthydrometric station(Design Analysis)(Handar)

Huesker Canal Liner