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<br /> <br /> <br />Exhibit I <br />Soils <br />EMPIRE PIT <br />This is a deep, well drained soil on terraces and flood plains of the larger <br />stream courses in the mountains and glacial outwash plains. It formed in <br />noncalcareous very gravelly and cobbly sandy alluvial materials derived <br />from schists, gneiss and grandi rocks of the adjoining steep slopes. Slopes <br />are nearly level to gently sloping. <br />Included in this unit are small areas of soils with thicker surface and <br />subsoils overlying sand and gravel at depths greater than 40 inches. Also <br />fan-like areas of soils with cobbly stony surface layers originating from <br />the steep mountain side slope drainage ways. <br />Typically the surface layer is a very dark grayish brown gravelly sandy <br />loam about 3 inches thick. The subsoil is dark brown gravel sandy loam <br />about 12 inches thick. The substratum is a pale brown cobbly coarse loamy <br />sand extending to 60 inches and more. Corse fragments in the substratum <br />make up more than 50 percent of the volume with dominant size of 1/2 to 5 <br />inches in diameter. <br />Permeability is moderately rapid, effective rooting depth is 60 inches or <br />more, available water capacity is moderately low. Surface runoff is slow <br />and erosion hazard is slight. Soils are slightly acid (pH 6.1 - 6.5). <br />Some areas have a rare flooding hazard. <br />The above information was furnished by the SC S. <br />