2017-05-11_PERMIT FILE - C1981012 ‎(8)‎

• Permit No: C1981012
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/11/2017
• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 14 SOILS INFORMATION
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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P~L•--Louviers - Prleta - Fort Collins complex, 3 to 25 percent elopes.
This map unit ie on ridge tope and side slopes In the foot hills. Slope
is 3 to 25 percent. The native vegetaCion is mainly pinyon, juniper,
and grass. Elevation is 6,500 to 7,800 feet. The average annual precipi-
[anon Ss about 14 to 18 inches; the average annual air temperature is 47
co 52 degrees F., and the average frost-free season is 115 to 135 days.
This unit is 40 percent Louviers stony loam, 20 percent Prieta loam,
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and 20 percent Fort Collins loam. Louviers soils are on side slopes.
Prieta soils occur on ridge cops, and Fort Collins soils are in drainage-
ways.
Included in this unit are 10 percent Travessilla channery sandy loam
and 5 percent Rock outcrop. Travessilla soils occur near the crest of
ridges and Roc1t outcrop is exposed throushout the unit.
The Louviers soil is shallcv and veil drained. IC formed in residuum
and colluvium derived dominantly from shale. Typically the surface layer
is very channery clay loam 4 inches thick. Ttie upper 9 inches of the
substratum is clay Ioam. The lover 3 inches is shaley clay over inter-
bedded shale and.silcstohe at a depth of 16 inches. The soil is neutral
throughout. Shale fragments range from 10 to 50 percent 1^ the substratum.
Shale bedrock ranges from 10 to 20 inches deep. f
Permeability of the Louviers soil is moderately sloe. Available eater
capacity is very lov, Effective rooting depth is 10 to 20 inches. Runoff
is rapid and the hazard of eater erosion is very high.