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The document outlines an individual assignment for a course on soil and water conservation, focusing on measuring soil loss from erosion plots and discussing standard erosion plots in relation to the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). It includes specific tasks such as calculating erosivity and annual soil loss using given data, measuring splash erosion, and discussing limitations of USLE. Additionally, it involves practical applications through experiments with runoff containers to estimate sediment load and soil loss from agricultural fields.

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Assignment - SWCE

The document outlines an individual assignment for a course on soil and water conservation, focusing on measuring soil loss from erosion plots and discussing standard erosion plots in relation to the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). It includes specific tasks such as calculating erosivity and annual soil loss using given data, measuring splash erosion, and discussing limitations of USLE. Additionally, it involves practical applications through experiments with runoff containers to estimate sediment load and soil loss from agricultural fields.

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AKSUM UNIVERSITY

School of Water Technology


Department of WRIE
Individual Assignment for the course SWCE (WRIE 4164)
Submission Date: 05/05/2025
1. How can we measure soil loss from erosion plot? Your discussion should be supported
with example?
2. What is standard erosion plot? Discuss in relation to the parameters in USLE?
3. How splash erosion can be measured in laboratory and in field level?
4. Discuss the limitations of USLE?
5. On the land which is continuously fallow and tilled, none of the conservation practices
(contouring, strip cropping and terracing) were practiced. Hence, Determine:
a) Erosivity ,R with Wischmeier and Hudson methods?
b) annual soil loss in tones per ha per year, using the following data of the area.
Table: Mass curve reading from recording raingauge
Time since 3:00 3:20 3:27 3:30 3:44 3:57 4:0 4:10 4:20
beginning of RF 0
(pm)
Cumulative RF(mm) 0 1 3 9 24 30 31 31 34
erodibility K = 0.25
Slope length = 18 m Slope steepness = 15%
 Use universal soil loss equation
6. Given the following data,
a) Calculate the average annual soil loss in tones/ha/year and write your conclusion.
 RF erosivity factor (R) = 200 MJ*mm/hr*ha
 Soil erodibility factor (K) = 0.34 t*ha*hr/ha*MJ*mm
 Slope length = 22.13 m
 Slope steepness = 9%
 Bare soil ( no surface coverage)
 Tilled up and down ( no conservation practice)
b. Keeping other values as given above; by how much percent will increase the
erosion if the slope length is increased by 100%?
7. A plot of 20m x 10m was prepared to estimate soil loss from agricultural fields. Three
containers (A, B, C) were installed to receive runoff water from the plot as shown in the
figure below. To estimate the sediment load within the containers; a sample of 1liter
water was taken from each container after string the water vigorously. Finally, the
following data was recorded.
Container Sample taken in litres Filtered & dried sediment
(g)
A 1 3.0
B 1 1.6
C 1 1.4
With this information; calculate the soil loss from a hectare of land found in similar
condition with the plot?
Note: all the containers were full at the time of sampling.

Plot (20m*10m)

100 lit 200 lit 100 lit


B C
A

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