Management makes a difference for water movement into and across soils during heavy rains. On this Soil Health Minute, Abbey Wick uses a rainfall simulator to show us how much water movement varies ...

Land use, or what humans use their land for like agriculture, residential, or industrial purposes, has a big impact on the water quality of a stream or lake. Impervious surfaces cause water to move ...

The condition of your soil affects how it will retain moisture after a rainstorm or irrigation. Learn why your soil still ...

Fourteen students watched water spray over patches of soil outside Park Elementary School. As soon as water started collecting in jars alongside each patch on the rain simulator Monday, the students ...

Sauk County rainfall simulator shows farmers how rain impacts their fields If soils are left bare outside the growing season, rain can cause some of that soil to run off into local waterways.

LODI - The day was sunny and warm on Ron Schoepp's farm. But in one place, water was falling as if it were raining. It came from a sprinkler that sprayed over five pans filled with soil from local ...

Through a computer simulation technology, the extent of oil erosion can now be estimated and its occurrence predicted. This is possible through the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model, whose ...

Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

When a rainstorm finally comes after long periods of drought, you celebrate that your plants' roots finally have moisture. Dig down an inch or so, and the soil is still bone dry. How can that be, and ...