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Available Water Holding Capacity

Code

Water Equivalent

1

<50mm

2

50 - 99 mm

3

100 - 149 mm

4

150 - 199 mm

5

200 - 250 mm

6

Solonetzic or saline soils

7

High water table

8

Perennially frozen subsoils

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Water, ice or rock