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i • <br />SOILS <br />~ ' * i~N <br />••Y <br />• a•-4 <br />The soils of the subject properi:y are Loamy Alluvial, Gravelly <br />Substratum, Wer Alluvial Land and Terrace hscarpments. Loamy A11uv- <br />,. <br />i.al Land occurs as small areas in major drainageways. It is a prin-~` <br />cipai source of gravel. Nearly all areas are subject to flooding <br />from streams and the floods can be damaging. The soils of this <br />``~ type are shallow and stratified. The strata are of moderately fine <br />textured material that is underlain by river sand and gravel. In <br />some places the so.i.ls are slightly influenced b}~ soluble salts. <br />The soils absorb water at a rapid to slow rate. The available orate <br />capacity is low, but many area. have a high water table that is ben <br />eficial to plant growth. Much of this land type is cultivated and <br />irrigated. The principal crol,s are• Lruck crops adapted to the area. <br />Viet Alluvial Land is on 1;he nearly level bottom lands of larger <br />streams next to stream channels in the county. This land is wet <br />most of the time. htateri.als are extremely variable in texture; <br />they r_onsist of stratified layers of dark colored silt, loam and <br />clay, underlain by sand and some grave L They are wet at a depth <br />of 2 feet most oi' the time and are. commonly wet to the surface <br />throughout the growing season. Natura] fertility is moderate to <br />good. Areas of this land type have a vegitative cover of water- <br />tolerant plants such «:; cattails and sedges, a.nd are not suitable <br />for cultivation because of the hazard of flooding from streams and <br />the high water tab]e. Terrace Escarpments occur as breaks or steep <br />side slopes adjacent to the nhannels c~f present or former streams.. <br />They also occur as the steep faces nF terraces that border bottom <br />?ands and flood plains. 'Phis land type cnnsi.sts of alluvium of <br />variable materials and is very shallow over gravel and sand. These <br />materials have a loamy sand or sandy loam surface layer. In many <br />rheas this layer i~: 5 Cn 30 porceul. gr.rvcl. Shale and sandstone <br />' c.u'.crops are in some area:;. Surface layers vary in reaction from <br />place co place and in places is ealcareous. Slopes differ widely <br />k within short distances and range From 1 Lo 80 percent. Some areas <br />ire used fo^ grczing, but the soils are i.oo steep, too shallow, qr <br />too unstable for cultivation or good grass management. <br />.~ <br />~= <br />~~~. <br />•' <br />r <br />