The associated Fremont , Hornell , Orpark , Busti and Chautauqua soils are on adjacent till plains. Somewhat poorly drained. The potential for surface runoff is low to medium. Permeability is moderate in the surface layer, moderately slow in the upper part of the subsoil, and moderately slow or moderate in the lower part of the subsoil and substratum. Most cleared areas are used for vegetable crops, grapes, pasture and hay.
Forested areas have red maple, sugar maple, beech, white ash and other hardwoods.
Erie-Ontario Lake Plain in southwestern New York. The series is of small extent. Chautauqua County, New York, 1988. The Barcelona series has previously been mapped as a bedrock variant of Niagara and Churchville soils. CEC activity class assigned as superactive based on one pedon of data from Cornell Univ.