A 500 m long levee made of compacted clay impounds water in a reservoir as shown in Figure P2.8. There is a 1 m thick (measured in the direction perpendicular to the seam) sand seam continuing along the entire length of the levee, at 10° inclination to the horizontal, which connects the reservoir and the ditch. The hydraulic conductivity of the sand is 2.6 x 10-³ cm/s. Determine the volume of water that flows into the ditch every day.

Figure P2.8.

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Elev. 38 m Reservoir Levee Elev. 30 m Sand seam Elev. 28 m Ditch 200 m (Not to scale)