an appropriate method to determine the hydraulic conductivity above water table is guelph permeameter. using this method, experiments can be carried out by one person in a short period. several investigators have commented on the systematic difference between the hydraulic conductivity obtained by guelph permeameter and shallow well pumping test (swpt) methods. therefore, the purpose of this re...

abstract information on spatial and temporal variations of soil hydraulic conductivity (k) is essential to improve soil and water management. however several techniques have been proposed for measuring of soil hydraulic conductivity above water surface table, but reliability and easy use of these methods in various conditions were always concern for engineers. the purposes of this study are mea...

to design subsurface drainage systems, it is necessary to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soil. one of the most common methods for field measurement of this parameter is the shallow well pump-in test method. another method which has recently been introduced for the above measurement is the guelph permeameter method. both methods are used to measure the soil saturated hydra...

The main goal of this work is to determine and to evaluate the saturated hydraulic conductivity for a silt loam soil in field and laboratory conditions. The experimental area was located in the Vallcebre research catchments, in headwaters of the Llobregat River (NE Spain). Hydraulic conductivity was measured in the field using the Guelph permeameter and field saturated hydraulic conductivity (K...

Preferential flow through macropores and other structural voids in field soils most often occurs at or near saturation. Our earlier research revealed significant differences in the value of the saturated hydraulic conductivity (A's) of a glacial till soil in central Iowa when obtained with five different measurement techniques. The five techniques included one laboratory constant-head penneamet...

The paper deals with measurements of water infiltration carried out on a well-developed forest floor formed by needle-leaf litter Norway spruce. Three field methods (tension disk permeameter, single-ring infiltrometer and Guelph permeameter) were used to determine the soil hydraulic conductivity. results strongly influenced repellency at interface between O- A-horizons. This was severely repell...

The spatial variability of the saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) of a greenhouse banana plantation volcanic soil was investigated with three different permeameters: (a) the Philip-Dunne field permeameter, an easy to implement and low cost device; (b) the Guelph field permeameter; (c) the constant head laboratory permeameter. Ks was measured on a 14×5 array of 2.5 m×5 m rectangles at 0.15 m ...

Abstract Infiltration stormwater control measures (SCMs) have the potential to contribute towards mitigating effects of urbanization on downstream receiving waters. SCMs are most often successful when in‐situ saturated hydraulic conductivity ( K sat ) is well characterized. In this paper numerical solutions Richards’ equation used quantify bias seven infiltration measurement methods, removing n...

Hayashi, M. and Quinton, W. L. 2004. A constant-head well permeameter method for measuring field-saturated hydraulic conductivity above an impermeable layer. Can. J. Soil Sci. 84: 255–264. Hydrologic understanding of mountainous and northern regions of Canada is poor owing to the lack of critical field data such as hydraulic conductivity. A portable field instrument, the Guelph permeameter (GP)...