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Initial rainfall on land will wet the surface and subsequent precipitation must
either infiltrate the soil if the surface is permeable or runoff into a stream channel. In
the latter case the surface will be impermeable.
Objective
To identify the characteristics of the infiltration rate water into the sand bed
Procedure
i Fully opened the by-pass control valve at the bottom left of the panel
ii Set the well drain no. 1 and no. 2 directly to the tank.
iii Both tank supply valve is closed.
iv Both spray valves is fully opened.
v The hydraulics apparatus is switch on.
vi Take the flow rate reading and start a stopwatch. The water flow rate is
adjusted as to maintain less than a mm of water above the sand bed without
any surface.
vii The flow rate is recorded every 2 minutes until reach 30 minutes.
Apparatus
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Results
Discussion
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40
30
Infiltration Rate(mm/min)
20
10
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
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Relationship between flow rate (L/min) and time (min) is the flow rate
decreases as the time increases. A constant value of flow rate was obtained at the end
of the experiment because the catchments became saturated.
For the dry soil, we can see that the infiltration occurred faster than another soil. This
is because, water easier to absorb to the dry soil because inside the soil, they have a
lot of void.
For the wet soil, infiltration not too fast. It is slow than saturated soil. This is because
they already have water inside the soil. So, the water was slowly absorbed inside the
soil.
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(c) Saturated soil
For the saturated soil, infiltration occurred very slow because they have a lot of
water inside the saturated soil that wet soil
Conclusion
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Appendices
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References
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