Only a small part of this association has ever been farmed, and many of these areas have been allowed to revert to brush. This association provides one of the better sources of gravel in the county. In the western part of the county, a large part if the association is in housing developments. The soils of this association are course textured and droughty. Permeability is rapid.
Natural fertility is low to very low.
These factors make them very poorly suited or only fairly well suited to most crops commonly grown in the county. Steep slopes on much of the area and difficulty of establishing and maintaining lawns and landscape plantings severely limit these soils for housing developments or similar nonfarm uses. Areas of soils that have a high water table severely limit the use of some areas for sewage effluent disposal. Rapid movement of water and wasted from cesspools and septic tanks can contaminate ground water supplies beneath the rapidly permeable soils of the association. This association extends eastward from the Nassau County line near Amityville to Shinnecock Bay at Quogue.