Irrigation Districts Survey

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this study was to identify, through agronomic and soil activities, areas susceptible to irrigation, the areas under irrigation at that time and the quantity of underground and surface water used for agricultural purposes.
The study, which was part of the project “National Hydrogeological Study of the Dominican Republic”, involved the territories of Irrigation Districts covering over 16.500 kmq.

SPECS

Date: 1998
Employer: Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos (INDRHI)
Country: Santo Domingo

PROVIDED SERVICES

– Agronomica Campaign: ccollection of agronomic data both at the local oces INDRHI, and through eld interviews with small and medium farmers, with farmers’ organizations and sample companies.

– Soil Campaign: including an initial phase of gathering and analyzing the existing literature and mapping, preliminary photo interpretation, in order to identify systems and subsystems of the landscape which, by the superimposition of data about land use, enabled the denition of preliminary Landscape Units, subsequently assayed with the ground surveys. Both campaigns allowed the creation of Thematic Cartography and the Alphanumerical Database, associated with the mapping information concerning the availability of underground, surface as well as mixed water and those areas susceptible to irrigation.