Virginia is a four-season state. August days can be - on the average - hot and humid, while January days can be cold and dry. The warmth in the air in early Spring, and the chill in the air in the Fall, feel different from other seasons. That's the climate pattern.
A hydric soil is a soil that is saturated, flooded, or ponded long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part. 1  This definition can be broken up into three component parts: 2  The soil is saturated, flooded or ponded. Saturated conditions are often the result of a high water table.
The goal of this document is to make landowners aware of what hydric soils are, where they are found, how they are formed and how their presence is determined. The blue underlined topics are directly linked to their section in the text. Click on the topic of interest to proceed directly to that section.