Soil Permeability
Soil Permeability
(OP)
Could someone direct me to references regarding subject matter. The type of soil would be the type encountered in automotive recycling yards (junk yards) where surfaces are compacted and such surfaces may be contaminated with oils.





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Is it sand, silt, clay, gravel or some combination thereof? If you know this, you might be able to make a very rough estimate.
"...the type encountered in automotive recycling yards..." is not an adequate description to estimate hydraulic conductivity
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this will give you a general indication of the soils in your area and will give information on hydraulic conductivity and other properties
onlinehttp://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/WebSoilS...
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Hydraulic conductivity.....permeability...tomato...tomahto
The goal is to see how water flows through the soil. As OG noted, if contaminated, you will not see the same response as for non-contaminated soils. Petroleum will not allow the same permeability of through soil as will uncontaminated areas.
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It's not a trivial difference - if you confuse the two you'll get a result that is several magnitudes out. And given that it only appears to be geotechnical engineers who are making this confusion, I would suggest they start calling it the correct word.
Actually, a quick check of some ASTM standards indicates that the standards are now using the correct word (hydraulic conductivity), so it is really just the geotechnical Grognards who need to update their phrase books.
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