Soil Information

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Soil Information

Hydrologic Soil Group

HydroCAD includes an extensive list of soil types, along with the associated Hydrologic Soil Group (HSG). This information may be accessed by pressing the Help key on the Curve Number lookup screen. The soils list is also available in this text file.

HSG Reporting

For a summary of the HSG usage within a given project, see the Soil Listing report (at right) which was added in HydroCAD-8.5.

Additional Information

Detailed information about a specific soil type may be obtained from the NRCS soil lookup page.