SOIL GROUPS
ARTICLE 1
1. For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety and general welfare, and determining, establishing and defining SOIL GROUPS, and to adopt such regulations for each group, and in accordance with provisions of Sections of the Revised Code of Ohio, the entire area of Canfield City is hereby divided into the following groups, namely:
GROUP I | - Relatively Favorable Soils |
GROUP II | - Steep Soils |
GROUP III | - Seasonably Wet Soils |
GROUP IV | - Wet, Shrinks - Swell Soils |
GROUP V | - Restricted Soils |
2. The groups are comprised of several soil types as identified hereinafter and which soil types are shown on the map designated as “the Canfield District Soil Map”, dated October 1968, and made a part of this regulation. All pertinent notations, soil mapping unit designators and other information shown upon the said “Map” shall be as much a part of this regulation as if the matter and things set forth by the said map were fully described herein.
3. The soil groups and the “Canfield District Soil Map” were prepared with the assistance and co-operation of the Soil Conversation Service, USDA, Canfield Office, and has as its basis the Interim Soil Survey Report, Mahoning County, Ohio published March 1966. Appendix A is a cross reference of the letter symbols used in this regulation (which symbols will appear on the final Soil Survey Report, Mahoning County, Ohio), to the numerical symbols used in the Interim Report.
ARTICLE II
1. These regulations shall not repeal, impair or modify private covenants or other public laws, except that it shall apply whenever it imposes stricter regulations; the soils groups are arranged in numerically inferior soil conditions and similarly, the more restrictive foundation requirements apply.
2. The granting of a permit due to the designations, grouping, characteristics and special foundation requirements, shall not constitute a representation guarantee or warranty of the suitability of lands, practicability or safety of any structure, use or other plan proposed.
ARTICLE III
GROUP I - Relatively Favorable Soils
SECTION 1 - Designation and Characteristics
1. DESIGNATION:
MAPPING UNIT NAME
BbB - Bogart | CmB - Chili |
BgC - Bogart | CmC - Chili |
LdB - Loudonville | |
WsB - Wooster | ELC - Ellsworth |
WcC2 - Wooster | GfB - Glenford |
CdB - Canfield | RsB - Rittman |
CdC - Canfield | RsC - Rittman |
RsC2 - Rittman | |
2. CHARACTERISTICS:
Light colored, moderately well drained soils, formed in clay loam and loam glacial till or sandy and gravely glacial outwash, slopes varying from 2 to 12 percent, most with perched water table during wet periods, a few with weak to firm fragipan, pH of 5.0 to 5.3, low to medium shrink-swell potential, medium bearing capacity, depth to bedrock generally in excess of six feet, except Loudonville (LdB).
Section 2 - Additional Foundation Requirements
1. Any building which has a foundation (footer) elevation exceeding three feet in depth from original grade, shall have perimeter drainage facilities along the exterior face of the footer of that building or portion thereof, and provisions for draining water away from the foundation.
ARTICLE IV
GROUP II - Steep Soils
Section 1 - Designation and Characteristics
1. DESIGNATION:
MAPPING UNIT NAME
ELD2 - Ellsworth | MsE2 - Muskingam |
ELE2 - Ellsworth | RsD2 - Rittman |
MsD2 - Muskingam | WsD2 - Wooster |
CnE - Chili & Conotton | |
2. CHARACTERISTICS
Light colored, well drained soils, formed in clay loam glacial till, but with severe slopes, from 12 to 50 percent, low shrink-swell potential, and, in the case of Muskingam, shallow depth to bedrock, pH of 4.8 to 5.5, less than medium bearing capacity.
Section 2 - Additional Foundation Requirements
1. The same as provided in Section 2, Article III and, in addition,
2. The owner must submit a topographic plan indicating the proposed construction and grading which will provide for positive surface drainage away from the building but in a fashion to minimize erosion, and shall be completed by the time of final inspection.
3. The depth from finished grade to cellar floor elevation shall not exceed seven (7) feet.
ARTICLE V
GROUP III - Seasonally Wet Soils
Section 1. Designation and Characteristics
1. DESIGNATION:
MAPPING UNIT NAME
FcA - Fitchville | MgB - Mahoning |
FcB - Fitchville | RaB - Ravenna |
JtA - Jimtown | WaB - Wadsworth |
JtB - Jimtown | WaA - Wadsworth |
2. CHARACTERISTICS
Light colored, somewhat poorly drained soils formed in load glacial till or silty-sandy and gravelly glacial outwash, slopes range from 0 to 16 percent, seasonally high water table and with some perched water table during winter and spring, low to medium shrink-swell potential, pH of 4.8 to 7.0 little more than poor bearing.
Section 2 - Additional Foundation Requirements:
1. The same as provided in Section 2, Article III, and in Section 2, Article IV, with the following exception and in addition.
2. The depth from finished grade to basement floor elevation shall not exceed five (5) feet.
3. Minimum footer for two story masonry house to be 22 x 12 or 22 x 10 with two 5/8 inch round rods.
4. Column support for floor girders shall not exceed twelve (12) feet; minimum column pads to be 3' - 9" x 3' 9" x 12" for single story and 4' -6" x 4' -6" x 12' for two story.
5. Footing drain systems will be installed along the entire perimeter of the exterior and interior face of the footing, which systems will be interconnected at least once in each elevation view of the building by passing drain pipe through the footer. Where said pipe passes through the footer, the footer thickness shall be increased twelve inches on either side of pipe to provide not less than 4 inches of concrete above and below the drain pipe and two 24 inch by 2 inch bars shall be placed over the pipe. The footing drain tile shall be covered with porous granular material whose density shall be between 90 and 95 pounds per cubic foot, extending from the footer in not less than 15 inches width up to within 12 inches of finish grade. Not less than 75 percent of the requirement for porous backfill shall be installed prior to the foundation inspection. Provision must be made for draining footer drain water awary from the building by connecting with tight joint glazed tile, plastic or ribbed pipe.
ARTICLE VI
GROUP IV - West, Shrink-Swell Soils
Section 1 - Designation and Characteristics
1. DESIGNATION
This group shall include all lands designated on the "Map" by the following graphic symbol:
MAPPING UNIT NAME
Ca - Candice
Fr - Frenchtown
Le - Lorain
Ly - Luray
Mn - Marengo
Od - Olmsted
TrA - Trumbull
TrB - Trumbull
GbB - Geesburg
GbC - Geesburg
GeC2 - Geesburg
GeD2 - Geesburg
ReA - Remsen
ReB - Remsen
RmB - Remsen - Urban
2. CHARACTERISTICS
Light or dark colored, poorly drained soils with extremely high water tables during most or all of year formed in lucustrine deposits, clayey glacial till, or sandy or gravelly- glacial outwash 0 to 6 percent slopes, moderate to high shrink-swell potential, poor bearing pH of 5.0 to 7.0.
Section 2 - Additional Foundation Requirements
1. The same as provided in Section 2, Article III, Section 2, Article IV, and Section 2, Article V and in addition.
2. The depth from finished grade to cellar floor elevation shall not exceed five (5) feet.
3. Foundation walls shall not be less than 10 inch block or 8 inch poured concrete.
4. Any straight wall exceeding 12 feet in length shall have an 8 inch by 16 inch pilaster at midpoint. Such straight walls over 28 feet in length shall have pilasters installed so that the distance between pilasters, or pilasters and a corner shall not exceed 12 feet.
5. Minimum footers shall be:
a. Thickness, 12 inches or 10 inches with two 5/8 inch round rods.
b. Width: 6 inch projection on each side of wall for basement less, frame and single story masonry; 10 inch projection on each side of wall for two-story masonry.
c. Pads for columns to be 50 x 50 x 12 inches for single story; 63 x 63 x 12 inches for two-story.
d. Under chimneys for residential building more than one story; thickness, twelve inches, projection at all sides, twelve inches.
ARTICLE VII
GROUP V - Restricted Soils
Section 1 - Designation and Characteristics
1. DESIGNATION:
MAPPING UNIT NAME
Lb - Lobdell | StB - Stripmine |
Or - Orville | StC - Stripmine |
Pc - Papakating | ScC - Stripmine |
We - Wayland | SsF - Stripmine |
2. CHARACTERISTICS
Sub group (a) are light or dark colored moderate to somewhat poorly drained soils in alluvium on flood plains, water table high during most of the year and SUBJECT TO FLOODING. Sub group (b) are all severely limited for use as home sites because of questionable consolidation with respect to bearing.
SECTION 2 - LIMITATIONS
1. Generally, buildings will not be permitted in sub-group (a) unless engineering facilities are provided such as dikes or levees which will protect the building, whose foundation has been designed to counteract the unsuitable bearing characteristics and the proposed use will not materially obstruct the movement of flood waters or substantially reduce the flood water storage capacity of the flood plain or generate sewage or other liquid wastes that are buoyant, flammable, explosive or could be otherwise injurious to human, animal, or plant life.
2. Application to build on strip mine spoil, subgroup (b), will be accompanied by the report of a soil engineer outlining the recommended bearing capacity and type and size of foundation.
ARTICLE VIII
1. It is recognized that the soil map is of such scale that the specified delineation between one soil group and another may vary in fact or that at the delineation, highly contrasting soils may comprise as much as 15 or 20 percent of the adjacent soil. Similarly, it is recognized that the use of certain materials and/or methods may make a foundation design, not conforming to the minimum standards, acceptable.
2. The Zoning Inspector shall have full authority to place additional requirements, to modify, change or substitute materials or methods of construction in order to minimize the structural risks so noted in previous articles.
3. A permit application whose construction plan does not meet the minimum foundation requirements of this regulation may:
a) Incorporate in the construction plans accepted methods of construction and/or accepted materials whose use will structurally meet the added requirements, or
b) Petition the Board of Zoning Appeals the decision of the Zoning Inspector, or for a variance or a conditional use. Said Board may request the Soil Conservation Service to conduct an immediate onsite soil inspection for the purpose of determining the specific soil type and subsequent group, or insist that a sub-surface soil investigation be conducted by a Registered Soil Engineer to determine the soil bearing capacity, its stability and drainage characteristics.
SOIL GROUPS - APPENDIX A
SOIL GROUP I
Letter Symbol | Mapping Unit Name | Numerical Symbol |
BgB | Bogart | 3235 B-1, 323 B-1 |
BgC | Bogart | 3235 C-2 |
CmB | Chili | 3255 B-1 |
CmC | Chili | 3253 C-1, 3255 C-1 3255 C-1 |
LdB | Loudonville | 744 B-1, 743 B-1 |
LdC2 | Loudonville | 7435 C-1 7435 C-2 743 C-1, 744 C-2 |
WsB | Wooster | 714 B-2 |
WsC2 | Wooster | 714 C-1, 714 C-2 |
CdB | Canfield | 713 B-1, 713 B-2 |
CdC | Canfield | 713 C-1, 713 C-2, 713 C-0 |
ELC | Ellsworth | 713 C-1 |
GfB | Glenford | 733 B-1 |
RsB | Rittman | 733 B-1, 733 B-0 733 B-2 |
RsC | Rittman | 733 C-1 |
RsC2 | Rittman | 733 C-2, 733 C-0 |
SOIL GROUP II
Letter Symbol | Mapping Unit Name | Numerical Symbol |
ELD2 | Ellsworth | 713 D-1 |
ELE2 | Ellsworth | 713 E-2 |
MsD2 | Muskingam | 406 D-2 |
MsE2 | Muskingam | 406 E-1 |
RsD2 | Rittman | 733 D-2, 733 D-0 |
WsD2 | Wooster | 714 D-2 |
CnE | Chili & Conotten | 3155 E-2 |
SOIL GROUP III
FcA | Fitchville | 332 A-1 |
FcB | Fitchville | 332 B-1, 332 B-0 |
JtA | Jimtown | 3225 A-1 |
JtB | Jimtown | 3225 B-1 |
MgB | Mahoning | 712 B-1 |
RaB | Ravenna | 712 B-1 |
WaB | Wadsworth | 732 B-1, 732 B-0 |
WaA | Wadsworth | 732 A-1 |
SOIL GROUP IV
Ca | Canadice | 971 A-0, 9716 A-1 |
Fr | Frenchtown | 711 A-1, 711 B-1 731 A-1, 731 B-1 |
Le | Lorain | 7076 A-0, 7086 A-0 9786 A-0, 9789 A-0 |
Ls | Luray | 337 A-0 |
Ly | Luray | 3336 A-0 |
Mn | Marengo | 7386 A-0 |
Od | Olmstead | 328 A-0 |
Sb | Sebring | 331 A-1, 331 B-1 331 A-0 |
TrA | Trumbull | 701 A-1, 7x1, A-1 |
TrB | Trumbull | 701 B-1 |
GbB | Geeburg | 703 B-1, 703 B-0 |
GeC2 | Geeburg | 703 C-2, 703 C-0 |
GeD2 | Geeburg | 703 D-2 |
ReA | Remsen | 702 A-1 |
ReB | Remsen | 702 B-0, 702 B-1 |
RmB | Remsen | |
SOIL GROUP V
Letter Symbol | Mapping Unit Name | Numerical Symbol |
Lb | Lobdell | 123 A-0, 1235 A-0 |
Or | Orville | 122 A-0 |
Pc | Papakating | 1286 A-0, 1289 A-0 128 A-0 |
We | Wayland | 121 A-0, 1216 A-0 |
StB | Stripmine | Dg 71 B |
StC | Stripmine | Dg 71 C |
ScC | Stripmine | Dg 40 D |
SsF | Stripmine | Dg 40 F |