The potential for surface water runoff is low to high. Permeability is rapid or very rapid in the underlying glacial outwash. Most areas are being used to grow corn and soybeans. Some areas are used for growing small grain, mainly wheat, and for hay and pasture. Also a few areas are in woodland or urban land.
Native vegetation is mixed hardwood forest.
The series is of moderate extent in MLRA 111. Delaware County, Indiana, 1997. The Wawaka series has been inactive and is being reactivated. The original Wawaka series concept fits the Miami, gravelly substratum phase as correlated in several subsets of soil surveys.