Soils information

The next piece of information which is going to be incorporated into the model is a soils layer. I have obtained a dataset from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) which contains soils data for the Regional Municipality of Niagara, based on Report No. 60 of the Ontario Institute of Pedology.

Unfortunately, the data arrived in the wrong format but luckily someone I've never met who is at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario generously converted the data to a format I can use.

This image shows the polygon outlines. There's almost 7700 different polygons in the dataset.

This image shows the polygons with a different colour in each polygon.

This image shows the soil drainage characteristics for each of the polygons.

This image shows the general soil classes, with black representing offsite values.

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