Barren and Jamaica soils occur in lower landscape positions and have water tables at shallower depths. Bigapple soils occur in higher landscape positions. Verazano soils have a contrasting particle size class within the control section. Moderately well drained. The potential for surface runoff is very low.
Permeability is rapid.
Most of these soils are used for recreation, beach cottages, and wildlife. Native vegetation consists of beach grasses, poison ivy, beach plum, multiflora rose, phragmites, milkweed, bayberry, and green briar. These soils are on modified landscapes in and near major urbanized areas of the Northeast. The soils of this series are of small extent.