Branford, Ellington, Hartford, Manchester, and Penwood soils are terrace associates formed in stratified glaciofluvial deposits. Surface runoff is negligible to very high. Permeability is moderate to moderately rapid in the solum and moderately rapid in the substratum. Many areas are cleared and in hay, pasture, silage corn, vegetables, nursery stock, and orchards. Some areas are wooded or in community development.
Common trees are white, red, and black oak, red maple, hickory, gray birch, white pine, and hemlock.
The series is of moderate extent, about 30,000 acres. Rockland County, New York, 1973. Lithic contact - hard bedrock at 36 inches. Lithologic discontinuity - rock fragments in till derived from mixed sources overlying bedrock at 36 inches.