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Research Project Agreement No. Y8265 Implementation of Infiltration Ponds ResearchFinal Research Report • October 20th, 2003
Equation (1.5) can be solved to estimate infiltration rate as a function of time (e.g., Salvucci and Entekhabi, 1994). Table 1.2 summarizes the values for input variables that were used to compare infiltration rates for different soil types. These values were chosen on the basis of averages reported by Carsel and Parrish (1988) for these soil types. The depth of water in the infiltration facility, Ho, is assumed to be small in these calculations. The general shape of the infiltration curve that derived from Equation 1.5 is shown in Figure 1.2 for a “loamy sand” soil type. Curves for other soil types will have similar shapes, but with different infiltration rates at steady-state and different time periods required to achieve these steady-state rates. The initial infiltration rates are higher than the saturated hydraulic conductivity because of the relatively high gradients
