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The Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database map for Santa Clara County published inn 2010 was acquired from the USDA’s<br />

Soil Data Mart (www.SoilDataMart.nrcs.usda.gov).<br />

Figure 4. Soils<br />

within <strong>and</strong> surrounding the project site (IR Site 25) ).<br />

Coastal Salt Marsh Habitat<br />

The largest wetl<strong>and</strong>s (Central Basin <strong>and</strong> Northwest Basin) are used as stormwater retention<br />

ponds <strong>and</strong> contain two distinct habitats (open<br />

water <strong>and</strong> mudflats with no emergent vegetation<br />

<strong>and</strong> coastal salt marsh habitat in shallower areas) (Photo 1, Figure 5) ) However, due to the levees<br />

<strong>and</strong> no direct hydrologic connection to the bay, these marshes are not subject to tidal influence.<br />

The dominant species in the salt marsh include pickleweed (Salicornia virginica) <strong>and</strong> saltgrass<br />

(Distichlis spicata). Common species occurring in small, typically dense st<strong>and</strong>s within the<br />

pickleweed/saltgrass<br />

matrix include at least two species of cattail (Typha sp.), marsh baccharis<br />

(Baccharis douglasii) <strong>and</strong> spearscale (Atriplex triangularis); while curly dock (Rumex crispus)<br />

<strong>and</strong> Italian thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus) are scatteredd throughoutt this habitat. The salt marsh<br />

vegetation is replaced<br />

at drier, higher elevations by non-native, ruderal (weedy) species such<br />

as<br />

ripgut brome (Bromus di<strong>and</strong>rus) , wild oat (Avena sp.), bristly oxtongue (Picris echioides), fennel<br />

(Foeniculum vulgare) <strong>and</strong> a Lotus sp. A single native shrub, coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis),<br />

which is commonly found in salt<br />

marsh/upl<strong>and</strong> transitionn zones is also present.<br />

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