Soil Map of El Paso

This is a follow-up to last Friday's post, Critical Water Conservation Guidelines May at Best Be Optional in El Paso. The development community wants to scuttle the Drainage Design Manual and their excuse is that there have not been soil surveys of El Paso so that standards are not arbitrary. As I pointed out, the USDA in 1971 did a comprehensive soil survey of all of El Paso County. A soil map was developed by Texas A&M University, Agricultural Research Center at El Paso using 26 soil survey maps of El Paso County. Here is the map. Just click on it to enlarge. Copy if you would like and send it to one of your favorite developers or maybe Carlos Gallinar in Planning and Development.