Headworks is a civil engineering term for any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a
barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.
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An example is the
Horseshoe falls
Horseshoe Falls is the largest of the three waterfalls that collectively form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border. Approximately 90% of the Niagara River, after diversions for hydropower generation, flows ...
at the start of the
Llangollen canal
The Llangollen Canal ( cy, Camlas Llangollen) is a navigable canal crossing the border between England and Wales. The waterway links Llangollen in Denbighshire, north Wales, with Hurleston in south Cheshire, via the town of Ellesmere, Shropshir ...
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Historically the phrase "headworks" derives from the traditional approach of diverting water at the start of an irrigation network and the location of these processes at the "head of the works".
See also
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List of barrages and headworks in Pakistan
This is a list of barrages and headworks in Pakistan.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Punjab
Sindh
See also
*List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
*List of canals in Pakistan
References
External links
Barrages in Pakistan- at ''Pakistan Tourism ...
References
Civil engineering
Irrigation
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