Posted by paul on November 07, 2016 at 06:30:32 from (66.60.223.229):
In Reply to: Re: Tileing farm land posted by John in La on November 06, 2016 at 17:42:45:
We have topsoil over a yellow clay subsoil and then a blue clay deep subsoil, pretty much 130 feet deep or so of mostly clay soil going down.
Water does not move through that but at a snails pace.
It takes a month for a 4 inch rain to soak away here, and that assumes not much rain during that month.....
On hillsides the water will go through the topsoil, hit the clay, and flow down the hillside on the clay layer. It is sort of like having a layer of plastic under your topsoil? The water hits it and flows sideways. So any ripple or soil changes on the sidehill will cause that water to flow out and to the surface, creating a long lasting bad wet spot in the middle of a hill.
Water just doesn't soak down much here. They say our drinking water from 200-300 feet deep wells has probably been 100 years since it last saw daylight.
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