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The northern portion of the proposed educational campus is fairly level with a gentle downward slope from north to south. The northern and eastern areas are high and dry, with some rocky soil and rock outcrops. Much of the site drains to the center of the property, then toward the southwest where there are some hydric soils. A small, intermittent stream forms near the middle of the property and winds its way to the middle of the southern boundary where it empties into a low area of the power line easement, entering the Park portion of the site and into Jones Creek. A second small stream crosses under Dromoland Road via a 24- inch culvert and enters the west-side of the educational campus, then flows generally southeast and joins the aforementioned unnamed small intermittent stream. No areas of the property are within 100-year floodplain. The Orange County Soil Survey shows the property having a combination of Herndon B/C and Iredell B soils. Herndon soils have medium to high potential for most urban uses, such as roads and dwellings. Recreation uses are also favorable. Iredell soils have low potential for most urban and recreation uses because of slow permeability and very high "shrink - swell" potential. A narrow band of wet Chewacla soils is mapped along the Jones Creek riparian corridor. The southeast portion of this section (east of Jones Creek) gently slopes to the northwest, toward the adjacent Duke Forest property. Soils are mapped as Herndon B and Iredell B, which are described above. I!