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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas <br />Counties <br />Co— Collegiate loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Landscape: Foothills, river valleys <br />Elevation: 7,000 to 8,500 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 18 to 24 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 40 to 46 degrees F <br />Frost -free period: 70 to 100 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Collegiate and similar soils: 85 percent <br />Minor components: 15 percent <br />Description of Collegiate <br />Setting <br />Landform: Flood plains <br />Landform position (three- dimensional): Tread <br />Down -slope shape: Concave <br />Across -slope shape: Linear <br />Parent material. Loamy alluvium over gravelly alluvium derived from igneous and <br />sedimentary rock <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 1 to 4 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br />Drainage class: Somewhat poorly drained <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Moderately high to high <br />(0.60 to 2.00 in /hr) <br />Depth to water table: About 12 to 36 inches <br />Frequency of flooding: Occasional <br />Frequency of ponding: None <br />Available water capacity. Low (about 5.6 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br />Land capability classification (irrigated): 3w <br />Land capability (nonin'igated): 4w <br />Hydrologic Soil Group: C <br />Ecological site: Mountain Meadow (R049XY241CO) <br />Typical profile <br />0 to 10 inches: Loam <br />10 to 38 inches: Fine sandy loam <br />38 to 60 inches: Very gravelly sand <br />Minor Components <br />Molinaro <br />Percent of map unit: 10 percent <br />Landform: Fan remnants, terraces, valley floors <br />Landform position (two - dimensional): Toeslope, footslope <br />12 <br />