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Emergency Management Tools

 
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Disposal

Suitability for On-Site Burial

  • Go to Web Soil Survey
  • Type in address of property
  • Click "View"
  • Click "AOC" button at top of screen, and drag box to cover property area
  • When hatched area comes up, click "Soil Data Explorer" tab at top.
  • Select "Disaster Recovery Planning" at left, then "Catastrophic Mortality, Large Animal, Pit" from the drop-down list.
  • Click "View Rating" button.
  • Suitability is graphically shown by color (green = suitable, yellow = limited suitability, red = not suitable) and explained in the table below the graphical image

 

 

Last Modified: July 8, 2008