Methods Used to Calculate the Sediment Retained by Check Dams in Budgam District of Jammu and Kashmir

Abstract: To determine the effectiveness of sediment check dams or the sediment yields of their basins, it is necessary to know how much silt has been captured during the dams' lifespan. The techniques used to determine the amount of sediment captured by check dams are crucial to comprehending these problems. The accuracy of the many methods that various authors have proposed to measure the volume of retained sediment has not yet been determined and is now under debate. To assess the accuracy and precision of the most widely used techniques (topographic: Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), trapezoids, and sections approaches; geometric: prism, pyramid, and geometric; estimating the volume of silt retained by check dams, we compare them.