PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS SOIL SURVEY UPDATE

Barnstable Soils: Very deep, well drained soils formed in loamy eolian deposits underlain by mixed sandy glacial till and glacially reworked ice contact outwash. Barnstable soils are on moraines, crests and sides of small hills in areas of ground moraine and in ice-contact deposits.

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Barnstable Pedon Description 2343301
Barnstable Pedon Description 2343302
Barnstable Pedon Description 2343003

Map Unit (s): 430A, 430B, 430C, 431A, 431B, 431C, 433B, 433C
Map Phases: 430 A, B, C, nonstony, 431 A,B,C, very stony, 433 A,B,C, extremely bouldery.
Taxonomic Classification: COARSE-LOAMY OVER SANDY OR SANDY-SKELETAL, MIXED, ACTIVE, MESIC TYPIC DYSTRUDEPTS
Drainage Class: Well drained.
Parent Material: Eolian fine sandy loam solum, over mixed loose sandy till and ice contact outwash.
Permeability: Moderately rapid in the solum and rapid to very rapid in the substratum.
Available Water Holding Capacity: Moderate.
Soil Reaction: Extremely acid through moderately acid throughout.
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 65 inches.
Depth to Seasonal High Watertable: Greater than 6 feet.
Hydrologic Group: B.
Hydric Soil: No.
Flooding/Ponding Potential: Frequency and Type: None. Duration and Months: None
Potential Inclusions: Excessively drained Plymouth and Carver soils are on knobs and convex landforms. Well drained Merrimac and Canton soils are on similar landscapes. Moderately well drained Sudbury and Newfields soils are on lower elevations.

Soil Suitability:

Agriculture: Map units 430A and B are prime farmland map units. 431B and C are important farmland, major limitations related to droughtyness. Map unit 433 is unsuited for most agricultural uses due to large surface stones and boulders.

Woodland: Map units 430 and 431 are well suited to woodland production, map unit 433 has limitations due to large surface boulders.

Development: Well suited for development, major limitations related to erosion hazard during excavation.

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