Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>Drainage class (natural)" refers to the frequency and duration of wet periods </SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>under conditions similar to those under which the soil formed. Alterations of </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>the water regime by human activities, either through drainage or irrigation, </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>are not a consideration unless they have significantly changed the morphology </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>of the soil. Seven classes of natural soil drainage are recognized-excessively </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>drained, somewhat excessively drained, well drained, moderately well drained, </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>somewhat poorly drained, poorly drained, and very poorly drained. These classes </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>are defined in the "Soil Survey Manual.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The State of Connecticut defines inland wetlands based on soils. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The Connecticut Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Act defines wetland </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>soils to include any of the soil types designated as poorly drained, </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>very poorly drained, alluvial, or floodplain by the National Cooperative Soil Survey, </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>as may be periodically amended, of the Natural Resources Conservation Service </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>of the United States Department of Agriculture.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Map units dominated by Connecticut inland wetland soils may have inclusions </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>of non-wetland soils, and non-wetland map units may have inclusions of </SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Connecticut inland wetland soils. On site investigation is necessary to </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>determine the presence or absence of wetland soils in a particular area.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>sensed and other information.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>the scale mapped. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>National Soil Information System relational database, which gives</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>