The potential for surface water runoff is medium or high. Permeability is moderately slow in the solum and slow or very slow in the underlying dense till. An intermittent perched high water table is at a depth of 1 to 2.0 feet in normal years. Most areas are used to grow corn and soybeans. A few areas are used for growing small grain, mainly wheat, and for hay and pasture.
Native vegetation is mixed hardwood forest.
The series is of moderate extent. Delaware County, Indiana, 1997. Source of name is the Native American name for the White River in Delaware County. Wapahani soils have previously been correlated as moderately slowly permeable phases of the Strawn series and severely eroded phases of the Miami series. A representative data mapunit for this pedon is 5992 in MO-11.