Non- Agricultural Land Uses

1. Non- Agricultural Land Uses Unit 3 Chapter 20 Lesson 5

2. Think About It… Journal Entry 20-3 What are some non-agricultural uses for land areas? How can the soil problems that we learned about effect the proper non-agricultural usage of the land? 50 word journal entry

3. Non-Agricultural Land Uses • Part 5 of Soil Card • You will be told how many to mark for this section • Consider the same soil properties as you did when selecting an agricultural use

4. Septic Tank Disposal Field • Septic Tank: holds and distributes human waste into the soil • Backups cause sewage water to seep/flood into lawns • Select only if: • Slope is level to moderate (0-12%) • Medium to Moderately coarse and bright subsoil • No wet spots or seasonal flooding problem

5. Residential Development without Sanitary or Storm Sewers • Housing that uses septic tanks • Select only if: • Slope is level to moderate (0-12%) • Medium to Moderately coarse and bright subsoil • No wet spots or seasonal flooding problem

6. Residential Development with Sanitary or Storm Sewers • Houses that use city sewers • Select only if: • Slope is level to moderate (0-12%) • Any soil texture with bright subsoil • No wet spots or seasonal flooding problem

7. Streets and Roads • Select only if: • Slope is level to moderate (0-12%) • Coarse or Moderately coarse and bright subsoil • No wet spots or seasonal flooding problem

8. Playgrounds • Select only if: • Regular slope that is level to gently sloping (0-6%) • Moderately coarse surface soil • Medium to Moderately coarse and bright subsoil • Should not have a stony problem

9. Paths, Trails, and Golf Courses • Select only if: • Slope is level to strongly sloping (0-18%) • Fine to Moderately coarse texture • Bright or mottled subsoil • Scattered stony, drainage, wet spots, or seasonal flooding problems

10. Woodland Wildlife Area Select only if: • Slope is level to strongly sloping (0-18%) • Medium to Moderately coarse surface soil texture • Bright or mottled subsoils • Area should already be a woodland or have woodland marked as agricultural land use (part 3)

11. Open Land Wildlife Area • Select only if: • Slope is level to strongly sloping (0-18%) • Medium to Moderately coarse textured surface soil • May have any color subsoil • May have seasonal flooding problems

12. Wet Land Wildlife Area • Select only if: • Regular slope that is nearly level (0-2%) • Fine to Moderately coarse surface texture • Dull subsoils • Should have areas of standing water with a drainage problem • May have seasonal flooding

13. Excavated pond • Select only if: • Regular slope that is nearly level (0-2%) • Dull subsoils • May have seasonal flooding, permeability, and drainage problems