FAUQUIER COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
THIRD FLOOR - COURT AND OFFICE BUILDING
40 CULPEPER STREET
WARRENTON, VIRGINIA  20186
(540)347-8660
FAX (540)341-3444

DATE:             March 18, 2002

TO:                  Elizabeth A. Cook, Chief of Planning

FROM:            Danny Hatch, County Soil Scientist

SUBJECT:      Golden Oaks Construction, INC (PP02-CR-06)

A Type I Soil Map was conducted on this parcel on 12/11/2000.  This involved walking over the entire property, boring auger holes and drafting the different soil types and cultural features onto the base map.  This 1 inch = 400 foot soil map needs to be digitized onto the preliminary plat, along with the symbols legend and interpretive guide information. As a result of this detailed soil map, a waiver of the preliminary soil report and 400 foot grid staking as required by the County Subdivision Ordinance was approved on 2/20/02.  Being very familiar with this parcel, the following comments are made.

Recommendations are noted first due to importance, with details following.  Recommendations should be forwarded to the Planning Commission in the staff report as conditions of approval prior to final plat acceptance.

Recommendation

1.         A Virginia Certified Professional Soil Scientist (CPSS) needs to adjust the Type I Soil Map soil

lines onto the final drainfield plat.  This needs to be done in the field and checked for any additional soil information to be added to the final scale plat map.

2.         A signature block shall be placed on this plat for the CPSS to sign which states:

Preliminary Soils Information Provided by the Fauquier County Soil Scientist Office via a Type I Soil Map (1"=400') Dated December 11, 2000.

This Virginia Certified Professional Soil Scientist has field reviewed and adjusted the preliminary soil information onto the final plat (1"=__') and certifies that this is the Best Available Soils Information to Date for Lots 1-3.

                                                                                                                                   

Va. Certified Professional Soil Scientist                                    DATE

CPSS #3401-                       


3.            Interpretive information from the Type I soil report for each mapping unit shown on the above

plat shall be placed on the same soil map.  Also a Symbols Legend shall be placed on the plat map to identify spot symbols.

4.         The two statements under Home Sites and Road Construction shall be placed on the same plat

map.

5.         This plat will be filed in the front office of Community Development and used exclusively for

obtaining soils information for this proposed subdivision.

6.         This map needs to be submitted to the Soil Scientist Office before final plat approval is made.

Home Sites and Road Construction

1.         Due to landscape position (drainageways) and high seasonal water tables the following statement

needs to be placed on the final  plat: "The County recommends that no below grade basements be constructed on soil mapping units 10A,13B,16B,50B,313B,413B&C,434B&C due to wetness unless the foundation drainage system of the structure is designed by a Virginia Licensed Professional Engineer".

The foundation drainlines should be daylighted for gravity flow on all structures.

This soils information will need to be provided by the applicant to the Building Department at the time of application.

2.                   Soil mapping units 33B & C is usually shallow to bedrock. The following statement needs to be placed on the final plat " The County recommends that before road or home construction begin in map units 33B and C, a site specific evaluation be conducted so that shallow to bedrock areas are identified. These areas may require blasting if deep cut or excavation is done"

3.         The soils where the drainfields are proposed are definitely the best soils on the property for subsurface sewage disposal systems. The following statement needs to be put on the final drainfield plat: "Before a home is started the builder shall mark the drainfield area off and not disturb it during construction".

4.         I question why the house and drainfield on the residue parcel is located in the far corner. To build a driveway to it, the home owner will have to cross several wet bottoms (10A soils). The Type I Soil Map indicates a potential home site located NW of lots 1 and 2. A home/drainfield site in this area would cause less disturbance to these environmentally sensitive areas and less maintenance of the driveway for the home owner, particularly during wet seasons of the year.

Wetlands

There are little to no hydric soils (wetlands) on this property. 

Open Space

Most of the soils in the non-common open space would be considered Prime Agricultural  and Prime Forest Soils.