Science in Practice Portal

This technical note provides resource specialists with tools for estimating soil properties required by many of the state-of-the-art hydrology, erosion, and sediment yield procedures and computer models. Some of the hydrologic soil properties will also be valuable in using models that require soils information, such as vegetation growth models.

It is the user's responsibility not to misuse the estimated soil properties, and the estimates should not be used where actual field measurements are more appropriate. However, the estimates should provide a reasonable approximation where measured data is not required.