Welcome to the OptiSurface Newsletter for August 2020.
In our News are some of the clients showing off their OptiSurfaced fields.
The Design Of The Month is Alberta Cereals which shows how landforming and strategic ditches can eliminate sloughs.
The Feature Of The Month demonstrates how exclusion zones and breaklines can be used together.
Don’t forget to check our Deal of The Month, Referral Offer and Classifieds at the bottom of the email.
If you have any problems or questions please reply to this email or call us on +61 405-686-425 (Australia) or +1 870-340-2020 (USA).
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Graeme Cox & The OptiSurface Team
DAVCO OptiSurface
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Poor surface drainage encourages crop diseases as shown in this NDVI image overlayed on 3D topography. Fix your surface drainage with http://OptiSurface.com Source: Michael Dunn
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Benefits of OptiSurface don’t get clearer than this. Right side of the road the field is a write off due to a wet start to the season drowning the crop and the others side has been OptiSurface Landformed is drained perfectly with a nice crop. See more at http://OptiSurface.com/examples
The field is located in Canada with large depressions scattered all over the field. The farmer had tried adding ditches to connect the ponding areas but still ponds as shown below.
Existing Topography
Existing Drainage Analysis
The Existing Topography shows scattered ponding areas that need to be joined up and drained to one single exit point at the northeast corner.
The OptiSurface 4Way was used to design the field. This surface type lets water meander across the field and exit to the boundaries, but ridge subzones were added around the edges of the field to force water to exit to the northeast corner only.
Ditches were strategically placed and manually designed to through ridges where required. An explanation of how to design these into the surface is shown in the Feature of the Month.
Proposed Topography
Cut/Fill Map
Most of the cuts are for connecting up the ponding areas and filling them up to get to drain.
Calculated earthworks (cut volume) on average is only 166 m³/ha.
Points inside the Exclusion Subzone are not included in the calculation of the landform design. OptiSurface treats this area as a boundary, therefore allows drainage into the subzone.
The video below demonstrates how to use the Exclusion subzones along with breaklines to design ditches through ridges.
Deal Of The Month
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Classifieds
We have clients looking for experienced earthmoving operators in Africa, France, Australia and USA. If you’re interested, contact support@optisurface.com
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