A concrete dam is 30 m long from upstream side to downstream end. The dam is situated on a 15-m-thick stratum of soil that has a coefficient of permeability equal to 0.5 m per day. Firm, hard clay and rock underlies the described soil stratum. The base of the dam is installed at a level 2 m below the natural soil surface. Draw the flow net for seepage occurring beneath the dam, and compute the seepage in cubic meters per day per meter of dam width (perpendicular to the paper), for the condition where the reservoir water against the upstream face of the dam is 18 m above the soil surface and the water level at the downstream end is at the soil surface.
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