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Soil Survey Manual - Table 3-8

Saturated hydraulic conductivity class limits in equivalent units

µm/s   m/s cm/day in/hr cm/hr kg s m-3 m3 s kg-3
100 = 10-4 864. 14.17 36.0 1.02X10-2 1.02X10-8
10 = 10-5 86.4 1.417 3.60 1.02X10-3 1.02X10-9
1 = 10-6 8.64 0.1417 0.360 1.02X10-4 1.02X10-10
0.1 = 10-7 0.864 0.01417 0.0360 1.02X10-5 1.02X10-11
0.01 = 10-8 0.0864 0.001417 0.00360 1.02X10-6 1.02X10-12