Carmel River Watershed: Map of Soil Type

Soil Types

File:Carmel Soils.pdf

Meta Data

Data Source:

Original Soils Data Obtained from SSURGO Website: http://soils.usda.gov/survey/geography/ssurgo/[1]

This data can be obtained from USDA interactive map: http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx[2]

Coordinate System

Horizontal Coordinate System Name: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10

Geographic Coordinate System Name: GCS_North_American_1983

Bounding Coordinates Horizontal

  In decimal degrees
      West:  -121.985778
      East:  -121.447541
      North: 36.735255
      South: 36.192038

Most Prevalent Soils Adjacent to Streams:

Processing Steps:

1) Added Soil Layer to Carmel River Watershed map from SURGO file.

2) Added the acreage for each soil type and displayed only the prevalent ones to reduce number of soil types from 160 to about 20.

3) Reviewed which soils displayed and modified the list in order to insure those soils nearest the rivers and streams were shown.

3) Created the legend for the soils layer.

5) Modified the colors to better distinguish between soil types.