This is another cache to make Warwick City Park a little more geocacher-friendly. City Park is a landform known as an outwash terrace. Large quantities of sands and gravels were deposited by flowing water when glaciers were melting in this area 14,000 to 18,000 years ago. The majority of City Park is dominated by Windsor Soil (SORI #3: Windsor). Windsor soils are excessively drained (water table is typically >60” below the surface), but this cache is located in an area of Deerfield soil. Deerfield soils are extremely similar to Windsor soils, but the water table in a Deerfield soil may only be 20” from the soil surface. This extra moisture in the soil allows for a greater variety of vegetation. If you go to both the Windsor and Deerfield cache, you will see this difference firsthand. The Deerfield cache has much more undergrowth than the Windsor cache.
Deerfield soils are good agricultural soils and are often cleared for pasture, silage corn, tobacco, and potatoes. Areas that are forested contain pitch pine, white pine, red and sugar maple, grey birch, and oaks. Houses built on these soils may need special septic systems because the soil is so sandy and doesn’t effectively treat the wastewater. The high water table can also cause septic system problems.
Cache is located just off a pretty well-worn path in the woods that continues further south to another cache. Cache container is a plastic container containing some swag and an official series description of Deerfield soils. Please rehide the cache exactly as found.
Congrats to digdr on a quick FTF!