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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> OrD—Otero gravelly sandy loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> National map unit symbol: 36df <br /> Elevation: 4,400 to 5,200 feet <br /> Mean annual precipitation: 11 to 14 inches <br /> Mean annual air temperature: 50 to 54 degrees F <br /> Frost-free period: 145 to 175 days <br /> Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> Otero and similar soils: 75 percent <br /> Minor components:25 percent <br /> Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br /> Description of Otero <br /> Setting <br /> Landform: Ridges, fans <br /> Landform position (two-dimensional): Footslope <br /> Landform position (three-dimensional): Crest, rise <br /> Down-slope shape: Linear <br /> Across-slope shape: Linear <br /> Parent material: Eolian deposits and/or sandy alluvium <br /> Typical profile <br /> A - 0 to 4 inches: gravelly sandy loam <br /> C-4 to 60 inches: stratified sandy loam to gravelly loam <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> Slope: 3 to 9 percent <br /> Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br /> Drainage class:Well drained <br /> Runoff class: Low <br /> Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water(Ksat): High (2.00 to 6.00 <br /> 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 content: 15 percent <br /> Gypsum, maximum content:2 percent <br /> Maximum salinity. Nonsaline to very slightly saline (0.0 to 2.0 mmhos/cm) <br /> Available water supply, 0 to 60 inches: Moderate (about 6.5 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> Land capability classification (irrigated): 4e <br /> Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 6e <br /> Hydrologic Soil Group: A <br /> Ecological site: R069XY026CO- Sandy Plains LRU's A and B <br /> Hydric soil rating: No <br /> 26 <br />