IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Winooski
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007VT001003
  • User Pedon ID: S07VT001003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007VT001003
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0731
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19315
  • 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: 44.2484245
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0715103
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Starksboro - dead end road - 2nd piece, Town of Starksboro land
  • Map Unit: Wo—Winooski very fine sandy loam
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT001—Addison
  • MLRA: 142—St. Lawrence-Champlain Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT001—Addison County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Villars, C. Alves, E. Young, J. Maisonpierre
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Winooski
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PHAR3

    ULAM

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Ulmus americana

    reed canarygrass

    American elm

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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

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—17 to 29 centimeters (6.7 to 11.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) stratified stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—29 to 72 centimeters (11.4 to 28.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—72 to 96 centimeters (28.3 to 37.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) stratified stratified sand to very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C4—96 to 122 centimeters (37.8 to 48.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 30 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, and red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium prominent gray (7.5YR 5/1), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg5—122 to 155 centimeters (48.0 to 61.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) loamy fine sand; massive; friable; 1 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg6—155 to 190 centimeters (61.0 to 74.8 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; wet when described; observed in auger, bucket