Author(s)

Ebierni Akpoebidimiyen Otuaro¹, John Jiya Musa^2*, Abayomi Ibrahim Kuti², Daniel Enebojojo Sunday³, Abdulraheem Gana Muhammad²

¹Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Nigeria.
²Department of Agriculture and Bioresources Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.
³Department of Agricultural and Bio-Environmental Engineering Technology, Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Nigeria.

Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil, and its capacity is the maximum rate of infiltration. Soil is a crucial component of agriculture, with properties varying due to connections between the atmosphere, living beings, parent material, and alleviation. A double ring with the inner and outer dimensions having diameters of 30 cm and 60 cm respectively. A core sampler of 50 mm in diameter and 50 mm high was used to collect soil samples from the study locations to determine the moisture content of the soil at each site. A 60-gram soil sample was collected from different plots, air-dried, weighed and passed a 0.0053 mm screen. The semi-built-up areas have significantly higher infiltration rates than built-up areas. The results from the study area of the semi-built-up area showed a bulk density of depths ranging from 1.20 g/cm3 to 1.97 g/cm3. The average moisture content of fifteen plots in the study area ranged from 7.14% to 17.07%. The soil texture ranges from 11.5% to 87.1% for sand, 2.53% to 60.75% for silt, and 4.43% to 38.25% for clay. It was concluded that preserving urban permeable areas, particularly forests, could help reduce urban flooding before it reaches flood-prone communities.

Bare-Land, Built-Up Infiltration, Soil, Water

Otuaro, E. , Musa, J. , Kuti, A. , Sunday, D. and Muhammad, A. (2024) Determination of Infiltration Rate in Developed Areas of Minna, Nigeria. Open Access Library Journal, 11, 1-12. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1111471.