PROJ00076

• Contract/PO #: C153564
• Contractor Name: Bauer Lakes Water Company
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 34
• County: Montezuma
• Bill Number: HB 85-1042
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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5--fli.tt-Gladel-Sharps .
This map unit is in the oentral and lIOrthwestern part of the survey area.

It is mainly on mesa tops, hillsides, uplands, and ridges. Slape is 0 to 12

percent. The vegetation on this unit is mainly shrubs" grasses, and forbs

with some areas of pinyon and juniper. Elevation is 5,400 to 7,400 feet.

The average annual precipitation is about 11 to 15 inches, the average
annual air temperature is 47 to 52 degrees F., and the, average frost-free
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..eason . is 100 to 135 days. I

This unJ.t makes up about 30 percent of the survey area. .It is about 35

percent Witt and similar soils, 30 percent Gladel and similar soils, and 20
percent Sharps and similar soils. Thf' remaining 15 percent is components of

minor extent,

Vitt and similar soils are on rre:;a tops, hillsides, and uplands. These

soils are deep and well drained. Thel} formed in caLcareous, e"lian and

reworked eolian material derived domitlantly from sedimentary r()Cks. The

SlJrface layer is loam. The subsoil is silty clay loam and clay loam. . Below

this to a depth of 60 inches ths soilS are loam.

Gladel and similar soils are on the edges of mesa tops, uplands,

hillsides, and ridges. These soils are shallow and well to so~what

excessively drained. They formed in calcareous, alluvium and reliorked

eolian material derived dominantly from sedimentary rocks. The soils are

cobbly fine sandy loam throughout. Ud'eathered sandstone is at a depth of

10 to 20 inches.

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