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Custom Soil Resource Report <br /> <br />HrB-Herndon silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Elevation: 320 to 700 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 37 to 60 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 59 to 66 degrees F <br />Frost-free period: 200 to 240 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Herndon and similar soils: 85 percent <br />Description of Herndon <br />Setting <br />Landfonn: Interfluves <br />Landfonn position (two-dimensional): Summit <br />Landfonn position (three-dimensional): Interfluve <br />Down-slope shape: Convex <br />Across-slope shape: Convex <br />Parent material: Residuum weathered from slate and/or metavolcanics and/or <br />argillite <br />Properties and qualities <br />,, .. <br />Slope: 2 to 6 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 high to high <br />(0.57 to 1.98 in/hr) <br />Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br />Frequency of flooding: None <br />Frequency of ponding: None <br />Available water capacity: Moderate (about 7.4 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Land capability (nonirrigated): 2e <br />Typical profile <br />0 to 3 inches: Silt loam <br />3 to 9 inches: Silt loam <br />9 fo 14 inches: Silty clay loam <br />14 to 34 inches: Silty clay <br />34 to 48 inches: Silty clay loam <br />48 to 80 inches: Silt loam <br /> <br />14 <br />