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<br />MAPPING UN TT DESCRIPTION <br />Delta-Montrose Survey Area Ry <br />Mapping Unit: Rough broken land, shale and till materials. <br />Position: Steeply sloping sides of erosional valleys and isolated mesas. <br />Drainage: ,°lell drained, unless influenced 6y foreign water sources. <br />Slope: 10 to 40 percent <br />Soil Profile: Texture Thickness Permeability <br />Clay 4" with exposure No estimates were made <br />of shat e <br />Erosion Hazard: High from wind and water. <br />Capabiiity Unit: VTIIes-1 <br />Range Site: Salt desert breaks <br />0 Cher Features <br />This class VIII land has very little production as rangeland and should be used <br />very little as range. The soil has a high water run off potential which also <br />washed large amounts of silt onto the surrounding soils. Erosion is a serious <br />hazard. Gullies have cut into the shale parent material. <br />Suitability for: <br />Dikes, diversions Poor, shallow and stony. <br />Reservoir Area Unsuitable, shallow to sandstone or shale, steep slopes. <br />Embankment Shallow and stony. <br />Irrigation Unsuitable, stony, steep and shallow. <br />Degree of limitations for: <br />Filter fields <br />Homesites <br />Unsuitable for: <br />Severe, shallow and steep <br />Severe <br />Topsoil, sand, gravel and roadfill <br />