IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Broadbrook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CT003010
  • User Pedon ID: 99CT003010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999CT003010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0554
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11413
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 41.9647064
  • Std. Longitude: -72.7220154
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 7,200 feet North from intersection of Rte 20 and Rte 187 on Rte 187 and approximately 350 feet West of Rte 187 and roughly Southwest of North School.
  • Map Unit: 82B—Broadbrook silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Connecticut
  • County: CT003—Hartford
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CT600—State of Connecticut

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Frigon, D. Parizek, S. McVey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Broadbrook
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2012
  • Classifier - Donald C. Parizek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BROADBROOK
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - artificial cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    RHHI2

    SOLID

    Acer saccharum

    Rhus hirta

    Solidago

    sugar maple

    staghorn sumac

    goldenrod

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic materials

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—48

    64—128

    64—823

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    9

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    79

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    296

    1195

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03446; observed in trench. Penetrometer: .75, .5, .75, 1.0, .5; rock fragment kind: Basalt shale.
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) loam; moderate fine, and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03447; observed in trench. Penetrometer: 1.25, .75, 1.0, .5
    Bw—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots; 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; fragments and 16 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03448; observed in trench. Penetrometer: .5; rock fragment kind: basalt.
    2BC—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 1.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03449; observed in trench. Singleton Blade 2; Penetrometer: 2.0, 2.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.5; rock fragment kind: basalt shale.
    2Cd1—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium, and thick platy parts to moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; very slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 0.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume subrounded unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P03450; observed in trench. Singleton Blade 3.75, 3.75, 3.10, 3.25, 3.75; penetrometer: 4.0, 3.0, 4.25, >5.0, 4.0; rock fragments: basalt shale; rock fragment size: fine.
    2Cd2—91 to 128 centimeters (35.8 to 50.4 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; very slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 0.0 very fine roots in cracks; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume subangular sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P03451; observed in trench. Singleton Blade 2.25, 3.75, 3.75, 1.75, 3.75 - no movement; penetrometer: 4.8, 3.0, 4.0, 3.5, >5.0.
    2Cd3—762 to 823 centimeters (300.0 to 324.0 inches); loam; very hard, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; very slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 99P03452; observed in trench. 1 clod 25' depth sampled for BD (deep Till sampled 25-27) 5YR 3/3 M, massive, L C 22%, 40% SA GR, if 5YR 5/1 MN.