Soil Highly Erodible and Hydric Classifications

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All Data is in percent total acres in each subwatershed.

Highly Erodible Classifications

Highly Erodible Highest %: Headwaters Little Darby  41.2%  Lowest %*: Buck Run 0.2%

Potentially Highly Erodible Highest %: Headwaters Big Darby  60.2%   Lowest %: Big Darby MC to PC 0.7%

Not Highly Erodible Highest %: Big Darby MC to PC 91.1%   Lowest %: Headwaters Little Darby 11.4%

*Some subwatersheds do not have all classifications.  Lowest percentage represents the subwatershed that has that classification and has the lowest percentage.

If you would like to view highly erodible classification maps in one pdf document, that is also available by clicking here.  This is a 0.5 MB document.

Hydric Classifications

Hydric Highest %: Robinson Run 98.2%   Lowest %: Buck Run* 0.04%

Not Hydric Highest %: Flat Branch 89.6%   Lowest %: Buck Run 1.7%

*Buck Run is 98.3% partially hydric. The next lowest percentage of hydric soils would be Flat Branch with 10.4%.

If you would like to view all hydric classification maps in one pdf document, that is also available by clicking here.  This is a 0.3 MB document.

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Last updated: November 18, 2008.