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Snohomish County Area, Washington <br /> 3—Alderwood gravelly sandy loam, 15 to 30 percent slopes <br /> Map Unit Setting <br /> • National map unit symbol: 2t627 <br /> • Elevation: 0 to 1,000 feet <br /> • Mean annual precipitation: 25 to 60 inches <br /> • Mean annual air temperature: 46 to 52 degrees F <br /> • Frost-free period: 160 to 240 days <br /> • Farmland classification: Farmland of statewide importance <br /> Map Unit Composition <br /> • Alderwood and similar soils: 85 percent <br /> • Minor components: 15 percent <br /> • Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the <br /> mapunit. <br /> Description of Alderwood <br /> Setting <br /> • Landform: Ridges, hills <br /> • Landform position (two-dimensional): Backslope <br /> • Landform position (three-dimensional): Side slope, nose slope, talf <br /> • Down-slope shape: Linear, convex <br /> • Across-slope shape: Convex <br /> • Parent material: Glacial drift and/or glacial outwash over dense glaciomarine <br /> deposits <br /> Typical profile <br /> • A - 0 to 7 inches: gravelly sandy loam <br /> • Bw1 - 7 to 21 inches: very gravelly sandy loam <br /> • Bw2 - 21 to 30 inches: very gravelly sandy loam <br /> • Bg - 30 to 35 inches: very gravelly sandy loam <br /> • 2Cd1 - 35 to 43 inches: very gravelly sandy loam <br /> • 2Cd2 - 43 to 59 inches: very gravelly sandy loam <br /> Properties and qualities <br /> • Slope: 15 to 30 percent <br /> • Depth to restrictive feature: 20 to 39 inches to densic material <br /> • Natural drainage class: Moderately well drained <br /> • Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Very low to <br /> moderately low (0.00 to 0.06 in/hr) <br /> • Depth to water table: About 18 to 37 inches <br /> • Frequency of flooding: None <br /> • Frequency of ponding: None <br /> • Available water storage in profile: Very low (about 2.7 inches) <br /> Interpretive groups <br /> • Land capability classification (irrigated): None specified <br /> • Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 4e <br /> • Hydrologic Soil Group: B <br /> Insight Engineering Co. -Stormwater Site Plan 07/03/2019 <br /> -9- <br />