Soil Characteristics of the proposed Mossy Point subdivision
This report and the accompanying plan detail the soil characteristics of land encompassed by the proposed subdivision at Mossy Point. The soils information has been collected to provide the subdivision with a sand base for sediment and erosion control strategies.
Publisher: Department of Conservation and Land Management
Cost: Free
Language: English
File: PDF 13.4 MB / Pages 0
Name: soil-characteristics-proposed-mossy-point-subdivision.pdf
Twenty sites were excavated by backhoe to a depth of at least 2.0 m or refusal.
Soil Landscape 1 (insitu materials) consists of undulating insitu terrain and includes the crests and sideslopes, lower slopes and insitu depressions sub-landscape units. Soils are generally duplex with loam topsoils over clayey subsoils.
Soil Landscape 2 (transported materials) consists of level to gently sloping transported materials and includes the terraces, sandy depressions and wetlands sub-landscape units. Soils tend to be deep unconsolidated sands in all but the lowest lying areas of the wetlands unit where various saturated materials may be found.