Happy Holidays and Welcome to the OptiSurface Newsletter for December 2020.
Thanks to all our clients for another great year. We look forward to helping you in 2021 and making it everyone’s best year yet.
See below for our latest Deals, News, Design and Feature of the Month.
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Regards Graeme Cox & The OptiSurface Team DAVCO OptiSurface Web: www.optisurface.com News: www.twitter.com/OptiSurface “Celebrating One Million Acres of Optimized Agricultural Earthworks”
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Deal Of The Month
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Another OptiSurface job done in quick time by John Oar in North Queensland. We had to get a race buggy to keep up with him. 😉 See more examples at http://optisurface.com/examples
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
Optimum Surface Landforming at DAVCO Farming’s Oaky Project for furrow irrigation. A sandy clay ridge angles through the field requiring significant cuts.
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Queensland Contour Banks Designing Erosion Control Contour Banks with the New Contour Bank Design Feature
The client was looking for a way to improve the drainage of existing contour banks on his field and add more to reduce the risk of erosion.The Runoff Analysis for a 1-in-10yr rainfall event below shows where there are high risk of erosion highlighted by the yellow to red runoff velocities.
Existing Topography
Existing Runoff Velocities
The field already have two contour banks installed in the field and the client is looking to add contour banks on the rest of the field. These banks will slope so that water falls and exit into the grassed waterways as shown below.
Existing Contour Banks
The new feature called Contour Bank Design was used. The target slope is defined and the location of each contour bank is marked in the map using Pick and Calculate. Ridges were defined where the contour banks will fall away and exit to the waterways.
Proposed Contour Banks
The contour banks will then be offset to create the crest of the bank and the water channel. This particular design requires variable height of the bank and water channel increasing in capacity as it reaches the waterway. This design approach reduces the earthworks and improves ease of farming over the banks.
Overview: The Contour Bank Design feature allows calculating and drawing of contour banks with a given target slope using breaklines
Displayed by: Menu: Tools > Contour Bank Design Appearance:
Calculate Using Topography: Select the Surface to carry the calculation on.
Point Spacing (m or ft): The distance between points along the contour bank line.
Target Slope (%): The slope of the contour bank. Can be positive (+) or negative (-).
Elv. Tolerance (m or ft): The allowable elevation tolerance of the contour bank and the selected surface.
Example The Design of The Month shows the example but the steps are shown below.
1. Go to Tools Menu > Contour Bank Design 2. Set the desired parameters. 3. Click Pick & Calculate and click on the map where you want the contour bank to start. 4. Click again in the direction where you want the contour bank line to go.
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