The moderately well drained Pootatuck and the poorly drained Rippowam soils are associated in a drainage sequence. Agawam, Enfield, Haven, Hinckley, Merrimac, and Windsor soils are on nearby terraces and outwash plains. Hadley is on siltier floodplains. Lim, Limerick, Saco, and Winooski soils are wetter silty floodplain associates. Suncook soils are sandy, excessively drained soils on floodplains.
Surface runoff is slow.
Permeability is moderate or moderately rapid in the loamy upper layers and rapid or very rapid in the sandy substratum. Many areas of these soils flood for short periods each year, but typically not in the growing season. The soils on higher positions flood occasionally. Cleared areas are used for cultivated crops, hay, and pasture. Common trees in wooded areas are sycamore, white pine, white, yellow, and gray birch, red maple, sugar maple, hemlock, and red and white oak.