IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rumney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010VT019003
  • User Pedon ID: S10VT019003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010VT019003
  • User Site Association ID: VT Lake Champlain Phosphorus Study
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6699
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71087
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 44.9706556
  • Std. Longitude: -72.3188833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: North of Newport Center off Route 105, 1.5 miles from town center, along Mud Creek; pit 3 CC
  • Map Unit: 60A—Rumney fine sandy loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT019—Orleans
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT019—Orleans County, Vermont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44072-H3—Newport Center, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Springston, Anne Clift
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumney
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain, meander belt
  • Landform: meander scar
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    PHAR3

    SOLID

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Solidago

    reed canarygrass

    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

    4

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    203

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    135

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many very fine roots; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—25 to 72 centimeters (9.8 to 28.3 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silt loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; 20 percent coarse dark brown (10YR 3/3); fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—72 to 138 centimeters (28.3 to 54.3 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; massive; firm; few fine roots; 10 percent coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—138 to 160 centimeters (54.3 to 63.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; massive; firm; few very fine roots; 25 percent coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); fragments; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C4—160 to 187 centimeters (63.0 to 73.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 4 percent extremely coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C5—187 to 230 centimeters (73.6 to 90.6 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1) stratified stratified sand to fine sandy loam; massive; very firm; fragments.; observed in pit, small