A clay liner at the bottom of a swine lagoon is 30 cm thick and has a saturated hydraulic conductivity of 10-7cm s-1. If the lagoon is filled to an average depth of 3.0 m and the pressure head immediately below the clay liner is -50 cm, what can you expect the steady seepage rate through the liner to be?
Here we assume that the reference elevation for zero gravitational head is placed at the bottom of the liner.
Then we have the equation for seepage through the liner as:
= -1.26 x 10^-6 cm/sec
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