Soil Resource Evaluation for A Group of Sidewalk Street Tree Planters

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Figure 1.
Mean base saturation levels in Geneva planter soils and native glacial till and alluvial soils.

Table 1. Chemical properties of planter soils on the north and south sides of the street.

Property	Mean	Std. dev.	Max.	Min.
pH ^(N)	8.3	0.9	9.9	7.3
pH ^(S)	8.8	0.7	9.8	7.5
EC ^(N) [mmhos/cm)	1.2	0.9	2.5	0.3
EC ^(S) [mmhos/cm]	1.3	1.9	2.4	0.6
SAR ^(N)	10.5 ^a	6.6	25.9	1.4
SAR ^(S)	28.1	13.8	58.1	2.8
ESP ^(N)	9.6 ^a	6.2	22.2	0.7
ESP ^(S)	23.6	10.4	42.8	2.9

↵(N) North side of street
↵(S) South side of street
↵a Statistically signficant difference at 95% confidence using Student’s t-test.

Table 2. Elemental concentrations in planter soils on the north and south sides of the street.

↵(N) North side of street
↵(S) South side of street
↵a Statistically signifcant difference at 95% confidence using Student’s t-test.