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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Routt Area, Colorado, Parts of Rio Blanco and Routt Counties <br />66D—Foidel loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />National map unit symbol: kOgw <br />Elevation 6,900 to 7,800 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 19 to 25 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 37 to 41 degrees F <br />Frost -free period: 50 to 80 days <br />Farmland classification Not prime farmland <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Foidel and similar soils: 85 percent <br />Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br />Description of Foidel <br />Setting <br />Landform: Hills <br />Landform position (three-dimensional): Head slope, nose slope, side slope, base <br />slope, interfluve <br />Down-slope shape: Linear <br />Across -slope shape: Concave, linear, convex <br />Parent material- Colluvium and/or slope alluvium derived from sandstone and shale <br />Typical profile <br />Al - 0 to 9 inches: loam <br />A2 - 9 to 18 inches: loam <br />EIB - 18 to 27 inches: loam <br />EIB - 27 to 35 inches- clay loam <br />Bt - 35 to 60 inches: clay loam <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 15 to 25 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br />Natural drainage class: Well drained <br />Runoff class: High <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Moderately high to high <br />(0.57 to 1.98 in/hr) <br />Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br />Frequency of flooding: None <br />Frequency of ponding: None <br />Salinity, maximum in profile: Nonsaline to very slightly saline (0.0 to 2.0 mmhos/cm) <br />Available water storage in profile: High (about 11.2 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Land capability classification (irrigated): None specified <br />Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 6e <br />Hydrologic Soil Group- B <br />Ecological site: Brushy Loam (R048AY238CO) <br />12 <br />