Environmental Soil Conditions and Soil Evaluation

The main features of Phase 1 of Soil Evaluation are:

The core samples at 25 - 50 m intervals along and within 5 meters of both sides of the banks of the Red Cedar River, between Hagadorn and Harrison Roads. These collection should be located by triangulation from a fixed benchmark and entered into the campus wide database. Data collected from these samples should include:

• Depth and uniformity descriptions of each soil horizon
• Texture, bulk density and porosity of soil within each identified horizon
• Samples of each horizon for complete biogeochemical analyses
• Baseline Samples of each horizon which are air dried and stored for future analyses.   

Once the meta data is collected commercially available 2D and 3D soil drainage models will be used to predict belowground flow of specific chemical and biological contaminants into the Red Cedar River.

The Phase 2 of Soil Evaluation should incorporate soil survey data along with information generated from these new soil borings to locate and redevelop appropriate soil horizonation,including clay layer seals, for establishing the proposed engineered wetlands, at or near the river banks, in collaboration with T.Burton