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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />f <br />Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas <br />Counties • <br />BaC —Baca silt loam, 3 to 5 percent slopes, cool <br />Map Unit Setting <br />National map unit symbol. 2rh19 <br />Elevation: 6,000 to 6,500 feet j <br />Mean annual precipitation: 14 to 16 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 48 to 52 degrees F <br />FrostAfree period: 120 to 140 days <br />Farmland classification: Prime farmland if irrigated <br />Map Unit Composition <br />1 <br />Baca, cool, and similar soils: 90 percent <br />Minor components: 10 percent <br />Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br />s <br />Description of Baca, Cool 1 <br />Setting i <br />Landform: Fan remnants <br />Landform position (two- dimensional): Footslope, backslope <br />Down -slope shape: Linear <br />Across -slope shape: Linear <br />Parent material. Alluvium derived from shale and siltstone <br />Typical jprofile <br />A 1i 0 to 6 inches: silt loam <br />Btl - 6 to 9 inches: silty clay loam <br />Bt2 - 9 to 25 inches: clay I <br />BtM - 25 to 32 inches: silty clay loam <br />Bk1 - 32 to 45 inches: clay loam' <br />B � - 45 to 79 inches: loam <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 3 to 5 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br />Natural drainage class: Well drained <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 j <br />Frequency of ponding: None i <br />Calcium carbonate, maximum in profile: 15 percent <br />Gypsum, maximum in profile: 3 percent <br />Salinity, maximum in profile: Nonsaline to very slightly saline (0.5 to 3.0 mmhos /cm) <br />Sodium adsorption ratio, maximum in profile: 2.0 <br />Available water storage in profile: High (about 10.2 inches) <br />e groups j <br />capability classification (irrigated): 6e <br />capability classification (nonirrigated): 6e <br />logic Soil Group: C j <br />gical site: Loamy plains (R067BY002CO) <br />17 <br />