Reservoir Seepage

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Respected Dears,

We want to construct a water reservoir, which have area 29 Acre. The surface strata is loam soil and head is 15m.

My questions is , once this reservoir becomes full, in how many days would the reservoir be emptied because seepage. how to calculated it?

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Have you built a dynamic ...

Have you built a dynamic water balance model with mutli-year inflow analysis?

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Dear Sultan,   You can ...

Dear Sultan,

 

You can calculate if you know any measure or can assume any estimated value of the seepage in the place you are thinking construct the reservoir.

Initially you must look for the appropiate seepage (or infiltration) measuring technical approved or used in your country to you can do any soil analysis and contract that service. Then using the obtained data and the appropiate calculation method you can calculate the required incognit.

On the other hand you can do an intial approximationt using the data you can obtain in a visit to the site (soil and other data), and some local or experience assupmtions to use the seepage tables.

 

Regards,

 

Orlando D. Gutiérrez Coronado

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Hi Sultan, For estimation, ...

Hi Sultan,

For estimation, you can use the rate of 1200 liters/square meter/per day  as water loses from unlined canals and basins located on loam soils. In case of lining, then the values can be much lower. If you plan to line the basin with HDPE membrane the water loses can be only evaporation which can reach 70 - 80 l/m2 per day.

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Hi Sultan, a few questions ...

Hi Sultan,

a few questions to help us understand your question better:

You will need to evaluate if the seepage rate will be greater or smaller than other inflow rates (such as from stream, rainfall, surface runnoff, etc..), and you most likely will need to assemble the following information (and possible other info as well).:

Pascual

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Run multiple double ring ...

Run multiple double ring infiltrometer tests and calculate the seepage.

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