• Puneet Hiranandani
• Ravi Sharma
• Ankit Laddha

Infiltration is an important component of the hydrologic cycle and is defined as the process of entry of water through the soil surface. Earlier, the term infiltration was used to denote the difference between rainfall and runoff in small areas. Hydrological importance of the infiltration process is to be seen from the fact that it marks the transition from fast moving surface water to slow moving soil moisture and groundwater. In this paper infiltration tests were carried out at twelve locations in the Sher-Umar doab in Narmada basin during to assess the infiltration capacity of the soils in that area. The top soils of Sher-Umar doab area are mostly dark colored and are clayey in texture. These soils normally form a layer of about 1-2 meter thickness. At few places, underlying coarse calcareous yellow coloured soil are also exposed. Black clayey soils have been derived from Deccan Trap rocks, which are abundant in the nearby areas. Both the black clayey soils and yellow calcareous soils have low infiltration rate, ranging from 0.1 cm/hr to 4.8 cm/hr. In the initial period of water application the infiltration rate is very high which reduces very rapidly with time.

Infiltration of Soil, Infiltrometer, Narmada Basin, Umar River Doab

"STUDIES OF INFILTRATION OF SOIL IN SHER-UMAR RIVER, DOAB IN NARMADA BASIN ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 12, page no.93-99, December-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1712020.pdf

"STUDIES OF INFILTRATION OF SOIL IN SHER-UMAR RIVER, DOAB IN NARMADA BASIN ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 12, page no. pp93-99, December-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1712020.pdf