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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> 69—Laporte variant complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> Elevation: 5,600 to 6,500 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 15 to 17 inches <br /> Frost-free period: 126 to 142 days <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Laporte variant and similar soils: 100 percent <br /> Description of Laporte Variant <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Alluvial fans, hills <br /> Landform position (three-dimensional): Side slope <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material: Residuum weathered from limestone and shale <br /> Typical profile <br /> H1 -0 to 25 inches: channery loam <br /> H2-25 to 46 inches: channery loam <br /> H3-46 to 56 inches: weathered bedrock <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 15 to 60 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: 10 to 20 inches to paralithic bedrock <br /> Natural drainage class: Well drained <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): Moderately low to high <br /> (0.06 to 2.00 in/hr) <br /> Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br /> Frequency of flooding: None <br /> Frequency of ponding: None <br /> Calcium carbonate, maximum in profile: 60 percent <br /> Salinity, maximum in profile: Nonsaline(0.0 to 2.0 mmhos/cm) <br /> Available water storage in profile: Very low(about 2.2 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Land capability classification (irrigated): None specified <br /> Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 6e <br /> Hydrologic Soil Group: D <br /> Ecological site: Shallow Foothill (R048AY204CO) <br /> 29 <br />