The document discusses the performance of the Soil Vulnerability Index (SVI) in Pennsylvania based on experience in the Mahantango Creek Watershed. It finds that SVI runoff is dependent on slope, but not affected by landscape processes. It also finds that SVI leaching is primarily dependent on the Hydrologic Soil Group classification. More detailed soil surveys are needed, as the scale of SSURGO data is often too coarse for applications. New soil mapping techniques using LiDAR can provide more accurate drainage classifications than SSURGO.
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1. Performance of SVI in Pennsylvania
Experience in CEAP’s Mahantango Creek Watershed
Pete Kleinman, Tony Buda,
Tamie Veith
State College, PA
Sapana Lohani, Claire
Baffaut, Allen Thompson
Columbia, MO
3. fragipan
no fragipan
Fragipan soils and zones of saturation
Well-drained
Poorly
drained
Wet boot
August 2003
Disconnected
saturated areas
Buda et al., 2009 (Hydrological Processes)
4. Fragipan soils enhance
surface runoff generation
46 L
92 L
4620 L
Albrights soil
Fragipan, poorly drained
Berks soil
No fragipan, well drained
5. • SVI Runoff is slope
dependent.
• SVI is not affected
by landscape
processes.
SVI and Slope
6. Representing field-scale runoff potential
Other approaches exist
Depth to Water Index
least cost elevation difference to
nearest stream
0 0.1 0.25 0.5 1 5
Depth to Water Index (m)
Topographic Wetness Index
natural logarithm of contributing area
divided by slope
Dry Wet
Topographic Wetness Index
1.9 13.46.2 8.4
7. SVI leaching is primarily
dependent on
Hydrologic Soils Group
SVI and SSURGO
8. Scale of soil survey data is often too
coarse for today’s applications
Mattern
Watershed
9. SSURGO (Order 2) soils in Mattern
0.5 – 4.0 ha
Berks B Berks C Berks D
Berks C
11. 0 - 0.68
0.68 - 1
Probability
of R.L.
Fe depl.
No Fe depl.
LiDAR derived model
72% correct
prediction
SSURGO
SSURGO drainage
Moderately well
Moderately well-
somewhat poor
Poorly drained
Somewhat poorly drained
Well drained or somewhat
excessively drained
Fe
No
SS
R.
New soil mapping techniques
Hinweis der Redaktion
4
112 soil cores collected in WE-38 and morphology described to serve as a validation dataset.
Model uses topographic position index