Download or read book Soil Permeability Determinations for Use in Soil and Water Conservation (Classic Reprint) written by R. E. Uhland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Soil Permeability Determinations for Use in Soil and Water Conservation A knowledge of the rate of movement of water through each significantly different soil horizon has many uses. The amount of water a given soil can transmit during a single rain storm or succession of storms is governed by the permeability of the soil, including its infiltration rate. Runoff is regulated to a great extent by the rate at which water enters the surface soil and percolates to lower depths. In other words, soils which take and transmit water very slowly will give high runoff whenever rains of high intensity and long duration occur. Thus permeability and infiltration data are valuable in over-all planning for irrigation, drainage, erosion control, and flood control. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.