Soil Permeability Map

Figure representing the concentration of soils of very low infiltration within the Rio Puerco basin. Each map unit is color coded according to the area percentage of soils that are classified as "very low infiltration." The Natural Resources Conservation Service recognizes four infiltration classes: very low, low, high, and very high.
Source: http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/kim/stat_data.html


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U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
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Maintained by Richard Pelltier
Last modified: 15:04:23 on 15-Mar-2006