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