Rock fragment content ranges from 1 to 10 percent. Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline. Carbonates are present and calcium carbonate equivalent ranges from 25 to 45 percent. All of these soils except Pevely are more than 20 inches to the base of the argillic horizon. Pevely soils have a lithic contact within a depth of 40 inches.
Wapahani soils are on shoulder slopes and back slopes on ground moraines and recessional moraines.
Slopes range from 1 to 18 percent. They formed in Wisconsinan glacial till. The mean annual temperature ranges from 48 to 55 degrees F. and the mean annual precipitation ranges from 35 to 42 inches. Frost free period ranges from 150 to 180 days. Elevation ranges from 600 to 1,250 feet above mean sea level.