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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> 27—Epping silt loam, 0 to 9 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> National map unit symbol: 35zb <br /> Elevation: 3,600 to 5,500 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 12 to 17 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 45 to 52 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period: 120 to 150 days <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Epping and similar soils: 85 percent <br /> Minor components: 15 percent <br /> Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br /> Description of Epping <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Plains <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material: Calcareous loamy residuum weathered from siltstone <br /> Typical profile <br /> H1 - 0 to 3 inches: silt loam <br /> H2-3 to 17 inches: silt loam <br /> H3- 17 to 20 inches: weathered bedrock <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 0 to 9 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: 10 to 20 inches to paralithic bedrock <br /> Natural drainage class: Well drained <br /> Runoff class: Medium <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): Moderately low to <br /> moderately high (0.06 to 0.20 in/hr) <br /> Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br /> Frequency of flooding: None <br /> Frequency of ponding: None <br /> Calcium carbonate, maximum in profile: 15 percent <br /> Available water storage in profile: Very low(about 2.9 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Land capability classification (irrigated): None specified <br /> Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 6s <br /> Hydrologic Soil Group: D <br /> Ecological site: Shallow siltstone (R067BY039C0) <br /> 14 <br />