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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />27-Falfa clay loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Elevation: 6,500 to 7,000 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 15 to 18 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 48 to 49 degrees F <br />Frost-free period: 100 to 120 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Falfa and similar soils: 80 percent <br />Minor components: 2 percent <br />Description of Falfa <br />Setting <br />Landform: Mesas <br />Down-slope shape: Linear <br />Across-slope shape: Linear <br />Parent material: Calcareous loess <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 3 to 8 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: More than 80 inches <br />Drainage class: Well drained <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Moderately low to <br />moderately high (0.06 to 0.20 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: 10 percent <br />Maximum salinity: Nonsaline (0.0 to 2.0 mmhos/cm) <br />Available water capacity: Very high (about 25.9 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Land capability classification (irrigated): 4e <br />Land capability (nonirrigated): 4e <br />Other vegetative classification: Loamy Foothill (048AY284CO) <br />Typical profile <br />0 to 9 inches: Clay loam <br />9 to 34 inches: Clay, silty clay, clay loam <br />34 to 57 inches: Clay, silty clay, clay loam <br />57 to 60 inches: Loam, clay loam <br />Minor Components <br />Aquents <br />Percent of map unit: 2 percent <br />Landform: Depressions <br />13