Percolation Test Results Sheet 2010-2024 Form

Instructions and help about PERCOLATION TEST WORKSHEET Custer County, South Dakota

this is a production of cornell university okay so we're set up here to measure another important physical property of soil and we're going to look at the infiltration rate so we have our bucket of water some measuring devices our rulers and a shovel we're going to make a hole so we're going to make a hole we're going to wet the inside of the hole and then we're going to after the soil on the edges has become saturated we're going to fill the hole and use the the measuring sticks in order to take the rate of drain down and therefore measure the infiltration rate of the soil and we're going to convert that into inches per hour so it starts with the hole i'm gonna remove the organic material from above i just have a little bit of turf okay that's out of the way i'm gonna cut down we're gonna go about nine to twelve inches wide and nine to twelve inches deep here okay that's all cleaned up so now we have our open test pit now you can imagine that this soil actually is very very dry and if