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4th IUSS Soil Classification Conference Field Tour Guidebook Stop 3 - Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE – Anthroscapes and Human-altered –transported materials (closed landfill site) • Arrive at closed Sarpy County landfill approximately 1:00pm. Unload from the buses at gate and meet just inside the gate, possibly near trees. • Very brief orientation by Ken/Cam regarding tour activities at the landfill (5 minutes) • Welcome– Duwaine Brigman, Director, Sarpy Environmental control (10 minutes) • Split participants into two groups sending each to one of the two pit sites (45 minutes/site) 3b 3a The capped and closed Sarpy County Landfill Site 3a – Filled depression post closure Site 3b – Original closure surface Site 3a - Recent fill site – (north pit) – (Pit boss – Shawn McVey) • Photographs of pit – (10 minutes) • Discussion of site and Human-altered –transported materials, buried soils– (10 minutes) • Pick and Poke – (15 minutes) • Soil Classification – (10 minutes) • View and discuss this site and the soil formed in Human-altered –transported materials as well as the ICOMANTH Circular 7 proposals regarding surface mantle of new soil material and buried soils (summary attached at the end) for approximately 1 hour. (Anthropogenic soils classification discussions - No soil series identified) Site 3b- Original surface – (south pit) – (Pit boss – Joe Chiaretti) • Photographs of pit – (10 minutes) • Discussion of site and Human-altered –transported materials – (10 minutes) • Pick and Poke – (15 minutes) • Soil Classification – (10 minutes) • View and discuss this site and the soil formed in Human-altered –transported materials as well as the ICOMANTH Circular 7 proposals (summary attached at the end) for approximately 1 hour. (Anthropogenic soils classification discussions - No soil series identified) Reconvene group to buses for final questions – (15 minutes) Depart landfill at 3:00PM 104
4th IUSS Soil Classification Conference Field Tour Guidebook This stop is at the closed Sarpy County landfill in Bellevue, Nebraska. Duwaine Brigman, Director of the Sarpy County Division of Environmental Control, will speak to us regarding the history and closure of the landfill. The landfill has been closed for 23 years, hence time zero for soil formation is known. The pictures below represent the type of equipment used to close the landfill in the late 1980’s. Figures xx. Heavy equipment used to compact and create the earthen cap when closing the Sarpy County, Nebraska landfill in the late 1980’s. The entire property is a “constructional” anthropogenic landform (i.e., sanitary landfill). The landfill did not exist at the time the field work for a prior soil survey was conducted between 1963 and 1969. The property is currently mapped and delineated in the Sarby County soil survey area (NE153) as map unit 9967--Sanitary landfill, but no soil property data is provided. Null data is not permitted for human-created landforms which are soil-covered, such as landfills. Landfills are not an approved kind of miscellaneous area for the National Cooperative Soil Survey and standards now dictate that soils be correlated and property data populated for closed (i.e., soil-covered) landfills. The final recommendations of ICOMANTH proposed changes for human-transported material (HTM), buried soils, the surface mantle of new soil material, and human-altered and human– transported material family classes that will be discussed here. We will observe 2 soils formed in the landfill cap. Nitrile gloves are available for your use at this site. Please use them and avoid getting any of the soil material in your mouth or on any other mucous membranes. If you note the trace element data, the ^Bwb1 horizon at pit 1 contains elevated levels of Hg. The soils were described by Dan Pulido, Valerie Jaehrling, Steve Montieth, Shawn McVey, Dan Shurtliff, and Ken Scheffe. 105
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