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Show Long-Avaifed Soil Survey Now Un der Way in County I k S?.' , " I m 1 1 hi niiimwi ,.in n i m'i- i. im mr"trr -, -'- (L to R) Woody Anderson of Greater Park City Co., Dallas Schumann, supervisor of the Kamas Valley Soil Conservation District, look on as Lael Harvey, Soil Scientist with the Soil Conservation Service takes a soil sample to begin the Summit County soil survey. The long awaited soil survey 'of Summit County has begun announced Lyle Reynolds of the United States Dept. of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Soil Conservation Service. Ser-vice. It officially got under way on September 6 with the signing of the work plan by the Summit County Commission.Fieldwork began in the Park City area a few days later. The survey will be a cooperative cooper-ative effort between several Federal and state agencies, and Summit County. It is expected that the survey will take several years to complete. com-plete. However, as separate areas of the County are surveyed, sur-veyed, the information will become available for use without having to wait for the entire County to be covered. The soil survey consists of checking each soil type in the County and classifying if according ac-cording to texture , slope, erosion hazard, watertable, climate, and other factors. After these determinations are made the soil survey becomes of great value in determining land use. Soil surveys have always been an important tool for agriculture agricul-ture as farmers have used it to determine cropping patterns and water application as well as other uses. Nowadays, however, how-ever, it is taking on a new significance as cities, counties, planning commissions, developers, devel-opers, and many others use it to determine uses and limitations limita-tions of the soils they are involved with. No one wants to build a home that will always have water in the basement, or will develop cracks in the foundation, or may slide down the hill, or have sewage disposal problems. On a larger scale cities or counties coun-ties do not want entire communities com-munities with these problems. Soil surveys help to find suitable areas for housing development, de-velopment, as well as parks, . open space, wild life areas, sanitary landfills, and other uses. As man uses the soil he usually usu-ally changes it drastically, He plows it, drains it, irrigates it, builds houses on it, puts sewage in it, puts pavement on it, builds roads over it, and puts it to a wide variety of other uses. So we are not interested in-terested in soil in its natural state but how it will react to our manipulation of it. |
