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Drip Irrigation – Application Rate and Injection Practices
Larry SchwanklUC Cooperative Extension
[email protected] 559-646-6569website: http://ucanr.org/schwankl
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Drip Tape Application Rate
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Drip Tape Application Rate
Crop water use (ET) information is provided as inches ( e.g. in/day).
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Drip Tape Application Rate
Crop water use (ET) information is provided as inches/day.
Drip tape discharges are often given in gpm/100 ft or gph per emitter.
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Drip Tape Application Rate
Crop water use (ET) information is provided as inches/day.
Drip tape discharges are often given in gpm/100 ft or gph per emitter.
How do you work those two together?
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Drip Tape Application Rate
Must know the kind of drip tape (tape diameter, emission point flow, & emitter spacing) and the operating pressure:
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Drip Tape Application Rategpm/100 ft. to in/hr
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Drip Tape Application Rategpm/100 ft. to in/hr
As long as pressure stays
constant, application
rate will stay the same.
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Injection Through Drip Irrigation Systems
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Injection Through Drip Irrigation Systems
What do you need to know?
1. Flow rate of irrigation system (often in gal/min).
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Injection Through Drip Irrigation Systems
What do you need to know?
1. Flow rate of irrigation system (often in gal/min).
Especially important when concerned about concentration (ppm).
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Injection Through Drip Irrigation Systems
What do you need to know?
1. Flow rate of irrigation system (often in gal/min).
2. Injection rate (often in gal/hr).
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Injection Through Drip Irrigation Systems
What do you need to know?
1. Flow rate of irrigation system (often in gal/min).
2. Injection rate (often in gal/hr).
Always important, but especially when concerned about concentration.
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Injection Through Drip Irrigation Systems
What do you need to know?
1. Flow rate of irrigation system (often in gal/min).
2. Injection rate (often in gal/hr).
3. Travel time of chemical through the irrigation system.
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Uniform Chemigation
What happens when we stop the injection?
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Uniform Chemigation
It takes at least as long for most of the chemical to clear from the drip lateral as it took it to initially move through the lateral.
To takes a long time for all the chemical to clear out of the drip lateral.
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Travel Times
Source: Fertigation with Microirrigation by Blaine Hanson, et al.
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Uniform Chemigation
The easiest way to determine travel times of chemicals (and water) through a drip system:
Inject chlorine (at about 10 - 20 ppm) into the drip system and follow its movement through the drip system.
You can spot when chlorine reaches any point by testing the water with a pool/spa test kit. Not so easy if drip is subsurface.
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Chemigation Uniformity in Drip Irrigation Systems
Trees & vines - injections should last at least 1 hour, and at least 1 hour (longer is better) of clean water irrigation should follow it.
Row crop drip - injections should be at least 2 hours in length, and there should be at least 2 hours (longer is better) of clean water irrigation following injection.
Always run clean water after an injection.
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What NOT TO DO
Worst practice is to inject for a short period of time and then shut down the irrigation system.