Abstract:
Among the main limitative factors for the agricultural production 
manifesting according to the local  pedoclimatic conditions we should 
mention excessive humidity, floods, reduced permeability and soil 
compaction, erosion processes, landslides and others. 
In order to improvethe production capacity of the agricultural lands, 
drainage works as well as works of diking and regularization, underground 
drainage and other operations to combat soil erosion were carried out across 
time. In the sector from the hydrographic basin Păltinoasa-Drăguşeni of 
Moldova river there have been arranged, in the period 1978-1980, 3 systems of 
drainage (Rotopăneşti-Rădăşeni-Fântâna Mare, Drăgoieşti-Berchişeşti, 
Bogdăneşti-Baia) and the system of irrigation and drainage Băişeşti
Dumbrava on a total surface of  8761 ha drained, of which 2559 ha with 
undergroung drainage works. In the period 1980-1985 drainage works have 
been carried out, from the system  Băişeşti-Dumbrava, on a surface of 552 ha 
and completed with a undergroung drainage network on a surface of 500 ha.  
Through constituting and reconstituting the property right, according 
to Law no. 18/1991, the arable  surface was fragmented by the individual 
execution of soil workings leading, in time, to a modelling in bands with 
crests, widths, diffrences of level and transversal slopes which vary 
according to the width of the parcels, the way they are used and the 
equipments used in agricultural workings. Thus, maximum transversal slopes 
of 11.8% and level differences of 0.558 m have been measured. 
Considering the fact that the application of Law 18/1991 did not have 
in view the ditance between the absorbant drain lines and their orientation, 
the parcels modelled in bands with crests may be perpendicular on the 
absorbant drain lines, in which case the gutters intercept the drain lines or 
they can be parallel with these, and in this case the absorbant drains may be 
positoned under the gutters, at a certain distance between the gutters and the 
crests and under the crests. 
The functional efficiency of the absorbant drains on the surfaces with 
individual parcels oriented perpendicularly on the absorbant drain lines is 
almost equal to the one obtained in the case of drains  placed  under the 
gutters on the parcels parallel with drain lines.