GATE CE · 2019 · CE
Question 49: Hydrology
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Question 49
CENAT2 marksNeeds review
The hyetograph of a storm event of duration 140 minutes is shown in the figure.

The infiltration capacity at the start of this event (
) is 17
, which linearly decreases to 10
after 40 minutes duration. As the event progresses, the infiltration rate further drops down linearly to attain a value of 4
at
minutes and remains constant thereafter till the end of the storm event. The value of the infiltration index,
(in
, round off to 2 decimal places), is ________.Log in to check the answer
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GATE CE 2019 · Paper 1
Civil Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Civil Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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