The effect of organic liners and time of incubation on the hydraulic conductivity of three difrent textured soils

Abstract EN

A factorial experiment was conducted to evaluate and to compare the sealing performance of five types of organic liner from different sources on seepage rate reduction for three textured soils that have a wide range of clay content from Dohuk governorate , the results showed that a 10 fold reduction in HC was observed under sugar beet treatment after two months from incubation in the bioplastic experiment.

Upon prolonging the incubation period for extra two month the seepage rate under the above mentioned treatments was reduced to zero.

Further, it was found that the percentage of reduction under the other treatments like morus, chick pea, chard , broad bean and barley leaves were less than 100%.