Bratčice: a pedological survey for the exemption from the Agricultural Land Fund

Type of project:    Private project

Investor:    DRUMAPO Cooperative, Němčičky

Implementation period:    2013

Activities:

• Research of archival data
• Field survey
• Determination of thickness of humus and subsoil horizons

A comprehensive assessment of soil conditions for removal of land from the agricultural land was one of the initial documents for authorization procedure for opening new projected mining activity in the Medlov locality. Field works were focused on the documentation of the soil profile and the thickness of humus horizon and the subsoil. On an area of over 90 hectares were made 50 pedological probes to a depth of 60-90 cm. Thickness of the humus horizon was further precised by archival documentation exploration boreholes.

By the pedological survey has been detected predominance of the soil type chernozem modal, and in exceptional cases also modal fluvisols were observed. Three areas with different thickness of the organic horizon were defined.

Thickness of the subsoil is relatively stable. The subsoil can be characterized as a transition zone from the humus horizon into the soil substrate, represented mainly by loess and less by sand and gravel. The transitional zone was observed in most of the probes the area of interest.