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2.04.9 Soils Resource Information <br />Potential Productivity of Billings Silty Clay Loam <br />Corn <br />Alfalfa <br />Oats <br />Wheat <br />Barley <br />Beans <br />Potatoes <br />Tomatoes <br />Bu. <br />Tons <br />Bu. <br />Bu. <br />Bu. <br />Lbs. <br />Bu. <br />Tons <br />50 <br />3.5 <br />52 <br />35 <br />45 <br />1,500 <br />140 <br />9.5 <br />Ref: Soil Survey, Grand Junction Area, Colorado, November 1955 <br />Actual productivity of the Billings silty clay loam soil type is presented in <br />Volume I, Tab 5, Vegetation. <br />Map Unit RW, Reed Wash, Typic Torrifluvents, 0 to 2% slopes. Reed <br />Wash is an ephemeral drainage that bisects the project area from <br />northeast to southwest and soon joins the Colorado River. Within the <br />project area, Reed Wash is incised about twenty feet below the adjacent <br />alluvial plain, and will not be disturbed by project activities. Reed Wash is <br />composed of an active drainage channel as well as an adjacent <br />drainageway bottomland that includes apparent wetlands in small areas. <br />Reed Wash was delineated in detail on the base map but soils were not <br />described nor sampled. Typical soils include undifferentiatied Typic <br />Torrifluvents, which are well drained to poorly drained, variable- texture <br />drainage soils with evident stratification. Because Reed Wash is not <br />projected to be disturbed by project activities, neither a soil suitability <br />evaluation nor a proposed salvage depth was recommended. <br />Map Unit DL, Disturbed Land. A large portion of the eastern and <br />southeaster part of the project area is composed of previously <br />disturbed and subsequently constructed 'land farms" associated with <br />land applied waste products from the former, now closed, Gary Energy - <br />Western Slope Refining Company. All of these rectangular "land farm" <br />fields are considered Disturbed Land (Map Unit DL) and are accurately <br />delineated on the project soils map but were not described nor sampled <br />as part of the baseline soil survey. There is no suitable soil available <br />for salvage from Disturbed Land. <br />Permit Application 2.04 -34 04/11 <br />