The potential for surface runoff and internal drainage are very slow. Permeability is moderately rapid. An intermittant apparent water table is 1 foot above the surface to 1 foot below the surface in most years. Many drained areas of these soils are cropped. Vegetables, corn, and sod are the principal crops.
Some areas are too wet to cultivate.
Native vegetation was primarily marsh grasses, sedges, reeds, and cattails. Freeport project, Stephenson County, Illinois, 1938.