IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Winooski
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09VT011005
  • User Pedon ID: S09VT011005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09VT011005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0738
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43311
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 44.9277382
  • Std. Longitude: -73.0632095
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Franklin County, Vermont; Town of Highgate. Montagne Farm, off Waugh Farm Road, along main branch of the Missisquoi River.
  • Map Unit: Wt—Winooski silt loam
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT011—Franklin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT011—Franklin County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44073-H1—Highgate Center, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Alves, E. Ishee, E. Howe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Winooski
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain, meander belt
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Clarendon Sp formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2009 (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

    RHHI2

    SOLID

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Rhus hirta

    Solidago

    reed canarygrass

    staghorn sumac

    goldenrod

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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

    3

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    34.8

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    A1—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) fine sandy loam; weak very coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—27 to 43 centimeters (10.6 to 16.9 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) sandy loam; weak coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 4.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—43 to 60 centimeters (16.9 to 23.6 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) sand; weak coarse granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—60 to 76 centimeters (23.6 to 29.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—76 to 160 centimeters (29.9 to 63.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small