Economic analysis of wetlands drainage in central Alberta / Mark A. Myhre
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TextPublication details: Edmonton, AB : University of Alberta, 1992.Description: 70 leaves ; ill. ; 28 cmOnline resources: Abstract: The economic feasibility of draining non-permanent wetlands in central Alberta is examined by evaluating two drainage systems at a half-section wetland drainage site, 50 kilometers south of Edmonton and conducting a wetlands inventory of the study area. This wetland drainage site contains a 23 hectare non-permanent wetland that prior to 1988 held up to 45 centimeters of water through more than half the growing season. By the time it dried out in late summer, the grass was too mature to be of any use to livestock. A controlled backflood drainage system was installed at this site in 1988, under the Farmland Development and Reclamation Program. It operated as a traditional uncontrolled drainage system for one year, prior to the control structure being installed in the summer of 1989.
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Thesis(M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-68).
The economic feasibility of draining non-permanent wetlands in central Alberta is examined by evaluating two drainage systems at a half-section wetland drainage site, 50 kilometers south of Edmonton and conducting a wetlands inventory of the study area. This wetland drainage site contains a 23 hectare non-permanent wetland that prior to 1988 held up to 45 centimeters of water through more than half the growing season. By the time it dried out in late summer, the grass was too mature to be of any use to livestock. A controlled backflood drainage system was installed at this site in 1988, under the Farmland Development and Reclamation Program. It operated as a traditional uncontrolled drainage system for one year, prior to the control structure being installed in the summer of 1989.