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FINAL DRAFT 02 -23 -2011 <br />Appendix A <br />Table 1 <br />Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Stormwater Manual. Thirty guidance <br />manuals and many other stormwater references were reviewed by the MPCA when it compiled <br />the recommended infiltration rates. All of these sources use the following studies as the basis for <br />their recommended infiltration rates: Rawls, Brakensiek and Saxton (1982); Rawls, Gimenez and <br />Grossman (1998); Bouwer and Rice (1984); and Urban Hydrology for Small Watersheds <br />(NRCS). The rates presented in this infiltration table use the information compiled from these <br />sources as well as eight years of infiltration rates collected from various infiltration practices in <br />the South Washington Watershed District. <br />* U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 2005. National Soil <br />Survey Handbook. title 430 -VI. (Online) Available: hhttp:! sai1s,usda. .z‘ _'tec_h tical %handbook/. <br />** ASTM standard D2487 -00 <br />24 <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />Soil Tc\tu es* <br />Corresponding Unified Soil <br />Classification.. <br />* * .., . <br />Infiltration Rate <br />inches/hour] <br />A <br />Gravel, sand, <br />sandy gravel, <br />silty gravel, <br />loamy sand, <br />sandy loam <br />GW — Well- graded gravel or well - graded <br />gravel with sand <br />GP — Poorly graded gravel or poorly <br />graded gravel with sand <br />1.6 <br />GM — Silty gravel or silty gravel with <br />sand <br />SW — Well- graded sand or well - graded <br />sand with gravel <br />SP — Poorly graded sand or poorly graded <br />sand with gravel <br />0.8 <br />B <br />Loam, silt <br />loam <br />SM — Silty sand or silty sand with gravel <br />0.6 <br />ML — Silt <br />OL — Organic silt or organic silt with sand <br />or gravel or gravelly organic silt <br />0.3 <br />C <br />Sandy clay <br />loam <br />GC — Clayey gravel or clayey gravel with <br />sand <br />SC — Clayey sand or clayey sand with <br />gravel <br />0 <br />D <br />Clay, clay <br />loam, silty <br />clay loam, <br />sandy clay, <br />silty clay <br />CL — Lean clay or lean clay with sand or <br />gravel or gravelly lean clay <br />CH — Fat clay or fat clay with sand or <br />gravel or gravelly fat clay <br />OH — Organic clay or organic clay with <br />sand or gravel or gravelly organic clay <br />MH — Elastic silt or elastic silt with sand <br />or gravel <br />< 0.2 <br />Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Stormwater Manual. Thirty guidance <br />manuals and many other stormwater references were reviewed by the MPCA when it compiled <br />the recommended infiltration rates. All of these sources use the following studies as the basis for <br />their recommended infiltration rates: Rawls, Brakensiek and Saxton (1982); Rawls, Gimenez and <br />Grossman (1998); Bouwer and Rice (1984); and Urban Hydrology for Small Watersheds <br />(NRCS). The rates presented in this infiltration table use the information compiled from these <br />sources as well as eight years of infiltration rates collected from various infiltration practices in <br />the South Washington Watershed District. <br />* U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 2005. National Soil <br />Survey Handbook. title 430 -VI. (Online) Available: hhttp:! sai1s,usda. .z‘ _'tec_h tical %handbook/. <br />** ASTM standard D2487 -00 <br />24 <br />• <br />• <br />• <br />