Question: Determine the lateral and main pipe sizes for a subsurface drainage project as described below. A landscape area with clay loam soil is to be

Determine the lateral and main pipe sizes for a subsurface drainage project as described below. A landscape area with clay loam soil is to be drained by subsurface tiles. Twenty sections of drain tiles are to be buried 6 ft deep and at 20 ft spacing. Each drain tile is 200 feet long following a 1.5% slope toward the main pipe. The soil has a saturated hydraulic conductivity of 0.2 in/hr. If the top 12 inches of soil is drained to field capacity, what is the estimated drainage coefficient? What should be the size of lateral tiles (n=0.015)? Assuming the main drain uses a uniform size for the length of 400 ft at 1.5% slope, what should be the size of main pipe?

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