SLM Database

A grassed waterway is a strip of grass and other permanent low growing vegetation that is established along in the main drainage line (the thalweg) of an agricultural field to discharge water safely and prevent gully development.

• Compiler: Felix Witing
• 06/22/2021 11:36 a.m.

Water retaining polders to reduce flood risk from heavy rainfall or runoff at high tide in coastal lowlands. Alternative production systems will be viable within thesepolders.

• Compiler: Martin Maier
• 03/06/2015 8:49 a.m.

Land reclaimed from the sea – ‘the coastal region in north-western Germany needs to be artificially drained, and this will be an increasing challenge with climate change.

• Compiler: Martin Maier
• 06/10/2015 1:43 p.m.

Les haies vives sont pour la formation de terrasses progressives, les seuils pour controler les ravines et les murs secs pour retenir le sol des versants a forte pente.

• Compiler: Gerard Henoc Defay
• 06/13/2012 11:59 a.m.

Fascine drains are used to drain excess water from elevated lands that might affect plots of land or houses below. They help prevent landslides and gully formation.

• Compiler: Helen Gambon
• 11/24/2016 5:38 p.m.

Stone Check Dams/Walls, Retainment Walls, and a Water Diversion Wall has been constructed in Nakina Village and Nakina Community Forest to help protect their settlements, agriculture land, forest land, and preserve the hilly landscape. These structures serve to reduce the runoff velocity (lowering the rate of erosion and gullying in …

• Compiler: Jaclyn Bandy
• 07/31/2019 2:53 p.m.

Diversion weir is a masonary check dam constructed across a perinnial or semi perinnial stream to divert the runoff water into land users field for irrigation.

• Compiler: Niranjan Sahu
• 06/05/2011 3:11 p.m.

Contour trench cum bund is a bund laid out on contour along with trench either staggered or continuous to check the velocity of run off, conserve in situ moisture, increse ground water recharge and there by establish a sustainable land use system.

• Compiler: Niranjan Sahu
• 06/05/2011 2:42 p.m.

The Marab is a local downstream water harvesting measure in an integrated watershed context, where up/midstream users and applied land management practices affect the Marab. The technology diverts and spreads excess runoff over deep-soil flood plains. The technology comprises local gully-filling, grading/leveling of seed bed, and construction of a bund-and-spillway …

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 05/25/2020 9:19 a.m.

A system of interlocking crescent shaped trenches approximately 5-12 square metres, 0.5 m deep and 0.3 m high formed down slope using the xecavated spoil

• Compiler: Paul Mutuku Kimeu
• 06/05/2011 10:36 p.m.