What can I expect? Soil - 09/24/07 01:27 AM
Hello, great site here, I have read many posts and I am learning with every post I read thank you!
I have a question that I have not found an answer to and was hoping you all may shed some insight on it for me. It is a soil question. I have a about a 1 acre area that is 20 feet below a horseshoe ridge. (I am in North west Wisconsin) At the bottom and throught the acre of this horshoe is full of tag adlers. The ground they are in is spongy almost like a pete bog. Standing water soemtimes but almost always wet when walked on.
I am cutting out the tags right now. What can I expect for the soil? I realize it is a vauge question but in your experiance with soil conditions like this, what do you think I can expect to find for a depth of this boggy/mossy mess, or is this something I will just need to dig down to find out?
As of now, the plan is to cut out the tags and get a better look at what the whole place looks like. Pond may be in the future here (hopefully), but for right now, I need to get rid of the "wetland look". I was wondering if anyone here could help me out with what I may expect to find when tackling this area?
(The soil at the top of this area is approved for a at grade septic system and is gravely. You go 80' in a different direction and it is a clay type soil that has models at a depth of 6 inches. Very funny area?
I would like to put in a water hole/pongd but may encounter permit problems. If so, I plan to keep it a bog but will manage what is allowed to grow. My new house will be on the ridge looking over this area (that is why the tags need to go, but in the long run I would love to have a small water hole/pond and allow the rest of the area to be wetland with grasses etc but no tags.
Any ideas would be of great help.
Thank you
I have a question that I have not found an answer to and was hoping you all may shed some insight on it for me. It is a soil question. I have a about a 1 acre area that is 20 feet below a horseshoe ridge. (I am in North west Wisconsin) At the bottom and throught the acre of this horshoe is full of tag adlers. The ground they are in is spongy almost like a pete bog. Standing water soemtimes but almost always wet when walked on.
I am cutting out the tags right now. What can I expect for the soil? I realize it is a vauge question but in your experiance with soil conditions like this, what do you think I can expect to find for a depth of this boggy/mossy mess, or is this something I will just need to dig down to find out?
As of now, the plan is to cut out the tags and get a better look at what the whole place looks like. Pond may be in the future here (hopefully), but for right now, I need to get rid of the "wetland look". I was wondering if anyone here could help me out with what I may expect to find when tackling this area?
(The soil at the top of this area is approved for a at grade septic system and is gravely. You go 80' in a different direction and it is a clay type soil that has models at a depth of 6 inches. Very funny area?
I would like to put in a water hole/pongd but may encounter permit problems. If so, I plan to keep it a bog but will manage what is allowed to grow. My new house will be on the ridge looking over this area (that is why the tags need to go, but in the long run I would love to have a small water hole/pond and allow the rest of the area to be wetland with grasses etc but no tags.
Any ideas would be of great help.
Thank you