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A procedure is developed that promotes the use of soil infiltration capacity and available soil profile storage in the design of highway drainage systems. By considering a design volume represented by the soil profile storage, the dependence on constructed runoff detention basins or other drainage structures can be reduced. This design volume is selected as the antecedent available storage in the soil that produces the T-year runoff from the T-year design rainfall. Data requirements of the overall methodology are commonly available soils, vegetation, and climatic parameters. The influence of antecedent moisture on the relation between rainfall and runoff frequency was tested by using 5 years of daily soil moisture and hourly rainfall and 10 years of hourly runoff data from the Calhoun Experimental Forest near Union, South Carolina. Equations that estimate the design antecedent moisture and its associated storage for ungaged sites are developed. Vegetation and soil management techniques that increase the volume of soil profile storage and soil infiltration capacity are reviewed. In addition, the Calhoun soil moisture data are fitted to frequency distributions to assess the risk involved in using soils-based drainage designs. (Author)

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Control; Design volume; Infiltration; Rainfall; Runoff; Soil conservation; Soil remediation; Soil water; Surface drainage; Vegetation

Design; Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Law; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

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Jun 30 1983 12:00AM

• ARE EARTH BERMS ACOUSTICALLY BETTER THAN THIN-WALL BARRIERS
• ASSESSMENT OF COMMONLY USED METHODS OF ESTIMATING FLOOD FREQUENCY
• COMPARISON OF PREDICTION METHODS FOR SOIL EROSION FROM HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION SITES
• EFFECTS OF DREDGED HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION ON WATER QUALITY IN A LOUISIANA WETLAND
• FIELD INSTRUMENTATION FOR MONITORING WATER-QUALITY EFFECTS OF STORM-WATER RUNOFF FROM HIGHWAYS
• MAGNITUDE AND FREQUENCY OF URBAN FLOODS IN THE UNITED STATES (ABRIDGMENT)
• MANAGEMENT OF DRAINAGE SYSTEMS FROM HIGHWAY BRIDGES FOR POLLUTION CONTROL
• PREDICTION OF CHANNEL BED GRADE CHANGES AT HIGHWAY STREAM CROSSINGS
• QUALITY CONTROL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS
• QUICK FIX FOR WASHINGTON METRO BRAKE SQUEAL
• STREAM CHANNEL GRADE CHANGES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HIGHWAY CROSSINGS (ABRIDGMENT)