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Deep Soil - Bob Orts - 06-03-2009
Couldn't find an answer using the search.
So what does it mean when you read a real estate listing that states: "Deep Soil"? Are we talking inches, feet or ?
RE: Deep Soil - EightFingers - 06-03-2009
Good luck deciphering the marketing terms in the MLS!
RE: Deep Soil - Bob Orts - 06-03-2009
Yeah, the words in the listing can just about mean anything. There are some Punawebbers that have mentioned they have deep soil, so I'm also wondering what their definition is of deep soil.
RE: Deep Soil - Rob Tucker - 06-03-2009
Generally around here the deep soil is on the Hamakua Coast where soil depths run over ten feet. There are some areas around Mountain View that I know of that have depths of about five feet - Puna Mauka. Puna Makai has shallow to little soil. Lots of rock though.
RE: Deep Soil - Bob Orts - 06-03-2009
So would it be safe to assume (without testing) that if a lot (Makai) is sloping down but rises up again that any claim of deep soil would reasonably be in the hallow (bowl effect)? A property I'm looking at does appear to have a saucer ground layout in the middle and that's the spot where the deep soil claim is being made, but didn't know if the common phrase meant 6" or 6'. Thanks.
RE: Deep Soil - EightFingers - 06-03-2009
Bob, try this:
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/soilsurvey/Hawaii/Htm/description.htm
which is a part of this:
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/soilsurvey/Hawaii/hawaii.htm
RE: Deep Soil - Rob Tucker - 06-03-2009
Bob, anything is possible. I have seen this bowl effect you mention on old sugarcane lands where after dozing heavy rains would wash soil into low lying pockets. Generally though the sugarcane operations removed soils gradually and hauled them off. The soil content of the cane shipments was washed off at the mill and those soils distributed on Shipman lands below Keaau.
RE: Deep Soil - TheYogi - 06-03-2009
quote:My land in mountain view fits that description. On the mauka side of the land, we have yet to find rock under the heaps of beautiful soil yet on the makai side, there's only inches to none at all. A wet weather creek runs through the land and its banks are 4-7 feet high, all soil.
Originally posted by Rob Tucker
Generally around here the deep soil is on the Hamakua Coast where soil depths run over ten feet. There are some areas around Mountain View that I know of that have depths of about five feet - Puna Mauka. Puna Makai has shallow to little soil. Lots of rock though.
RE: Deep Soil - Carey - 06-06-2009
The soil survey is currently being redone to be much more detailed and informative... so checking back with the CTHAR site will (hopefully) get you much more detailed information in the near future (there are crews of grad & undergrad students working this summer on the survey...)
RE: Deep Soil - olin137 - 06-23-2009
As for knowing how deep the soil is, nothing beats a shovel to find out.