Eldridge soils are sandy over loamy. Scio soils are coarse-silty. Merrimac soils are sandy. Agawam soils have a sandy substratum. Moderately well drained.
Permeability is moderately rapid in the solum and slow to moderately slow in the substratum.
The major use is for growing hay and pasture, but a small amount is used for growing row crops. Principal woodland trees are white pine, red oak, black oak, gray birch, and red maple. The series is of small extent. Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1975. This revision represents a change in classification from Typic Dystrochrepts to Oxyaquic Dystrochrepts.