Date of Award:
5-1949
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department name when degree awarded
Civil Engineering
Committee Chair(s)
O. W. Israelsen
Committee
O. W. Israelsen
Abstract
After approximately 25 years of using open drains in the Lewiston Area, Utah, the water table has not changed appreciably from what it was in 1921 when Hart and Adams (4) conducted their drainage investigations. It is still only about three feet below the ground surface. This is not effective drainage, meeting neither of the two primary drainage requirements of an arid or semi-arid agricultural region, namely; preventing an accumulation of excessive water within the depth of soil required for optimum growth of plant root systems, and maintaining the water table at a depth below the ground surface greater than the maximum height capillary water can rise, carrying any harmful salts that may be present in solution.
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Recommended Citation
Pearson, Gregory L., "Design of Shallow Wells for Drainage by Pumping, Lewiston Area, Utah" (1949). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 4384.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4384
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