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1 M. Sc., Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

2 M. Sc., Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Aburaihan Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Assist. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Azarabaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

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The authors unanimously wish to retract this paper because of several incorrect statements and erroneous presentation and copyrights issues of primary data.

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