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Supporting Documentation · May 28, 2026

2026 05 Storm Water Management Report rcd 5 6 2026

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Custom Soil Resource Report MAP LEGEND MAP INFORMATION Area of Interest (AOI) Spoil Area The soil surveys that comprise your AOI were mapped at Area of Interest (AOI) 1:12,000. Stony Spot Soils Very Stony Spot Soil Map Unit Polygons Warning: Soil Map may not be valid at this scale. Wet Spot Soil Map Unit Lines Enlargement of maps beyond the scale of mapping can cause Other Soil Map Unit Points misunderstanding of the detail of mapping and accuracy of soil Special Line Features line placement. The maps do not show the small areas of Special Point Features contrasting soils that could have been shown at a more detailed Blowout Water Features scale. Streams and Canals Borrow Pit Transportation Please rely on the bar scale on each map sheet for map Clay Spot Rails measurements. Closed Depression Interstate Highways Source of Map: Natural Resources Conservation Service Gravel Pit US Routes Web Soil Survey URL: Gravelly Spot Coordinate System: Web Mercator (EPSG:3857) Major Roads Landfill

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Coordinate System: Web Mercator (EPSG:3857) Major Roads Landfill Local Roads Maps from the Web Soil Survey are based on the Web Mercator Lava Flow projection, which preserves direction and shape but distorts Background distance and area. A projection that preserves area, such as the Marsh or swamp Aerial Photography Albers equal-area conic projection, should be used if more Mine or Quarry accurate calculations of distance or area are required. Miscellaneous Water This product is generated from the USDA-NRCS certified data as Perennial Water of the version date(s) listed below. Rock Outcrop Soil Survey Area: Essex County, New Jersey Saline Spot Survey Area Data: Version 20, Sep 3, 2024 Sandy Spot Soil map units are labeled (as space allows) for map scales Severely Eroded Spot 1:50,000 or larger. Sinkhole Date(s) aerial images were photographed: Oct 10, 2022—Oct Slide or Slip 16, 2022 Sodic Spot The orthophoto or other base map on which the soil lines were compiled and digitized probably differs from the background

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the soil lines were compiled and digitized probably differs from the background imagery displayed on these maps. As a result, some minor shifting of map unit boundaries may be evident. 10

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Custom Soil Resource Report Map Unit Legend Map Unit Symbol Map Unit Name Acres in AOI Percent of AOI URBONB Urban land, Boonton 1.7 15.4% substratum, 0 to 8 percent slopes USBONB Urban land, Boonton 9.4 82.9% substratum - Boonton complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes USBONC Urban land, Boonton 0.2 1.7% substratum - Boonton complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes Totals for Area of Interest 11.4 100.0% Map Unit Descriptions The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the soils or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit descriptions, along with the maps, can be used to determine the composition and properties of a unit. A map unit delineation on a soil map represents an area dominated by one or more major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified and named according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils. Within a taxonomic class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils. On the landscape, however, the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the characteristic variability of all natural phenomena. Thus, the range of some observed properties may extend beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. Areas of soils of a single taxonomic class rarely, if ever, can be mapped without including areas of other taxonomic classes. Consequently, every map unit is made up of the soils or miscellaneous areas for which it is named and some minor components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major soils.

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e up of the soils or miscellaneous areas for which it is named and some minor components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major soils. Most minor soils have properties similar to those of the dominant soil or soils in the map unit, and thus they do not affect use and management. These are called noncontrasting, or similar, components. They may or may not be mentioned in a particular map unit description. Other minor components, however, have properties and behavioral characteristics divergent enough to affect use or to require different management. These are called contrasting, or dissimilar, components. They generally are in small areas and could not be mapped separately because of the scale used. Some small areas of strongly contrasting soils or miscellaneous areas are identified by a special symbol on the maps. If included in the database for a given area, the contrasting minor components are identified in the map unit descriptions along with some characteristics of each. A few areas of minor components may not have been observed, and consequently they are not mentioned in the descriptions, especially where the pattern was so complex that it was impractical to make enough observations to identify all the soils and miscellaneous areas on the landscape. 11

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Custom Soil Resource Report The presence of minor components in a map unit in no way diminishes the usefulness or accuracy of the data. The objective of mapping is not to delineate pure taxonomic classes but rather to separate the landscape into landforms or landform segments that have similar use and management requirements. The delineation of such segments on the map provides sufficient information for the development of resource plans. If intensive use of small areas is planned, however, onsite investigation is needed to define and locate the soils and miscellaneous areas. An identifying symbol precedes the map unit name in the map unit descriptions. Each description includes general facts about the unit and gives important soil properties and qualities. Soils that have profiles that are almost alike make up a soil series. Except for differences in texture of the surface layer, all the soils of a series have major horizons that are similar in composition, thickness, and arrangement. Soils of one series can differ in texture of the surface layer, slope, stoniness, salinity, degree of erosion, and other characteristics that affect their use. On the basis of such differences, a soil series is divided into soil phases. Most of the areas shown on the detailed soil maps are phases of soil series. The name of a soil phase commonly indicates a feature that affects use or management. For example, Alpha silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, is a phase of the Alpha series. Some map units are made up of two or more major soils or miscellaneous areas. These map units are complexes, associations, or undifferentiated groups. A complex consists of two or more soils or miscellaneous areas in such an intricate pattern or in such small areas that they cannot be shown separately on the maps. The pattern and proportion of the soils or miscellaneous areas are somewhat similar in all areas. Alpha-Beta complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes, is an example. An association is made up of two or more geographically associated soils or miscellaneous areas that are shown as one unit on the maps. Because of present or anticipated uses of the map units in the survey area, it was not considered practical or necessary to map the soils or miscellaneous areas separately. The pattern and relative proportion of the soils or miscellaneous areas are somewhat similar. Alpha-Beta association, 0 to 2

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practical or necessary to map the soils or miscellaneous areas separately. The pattern and relative proportion of the soils or miscellaneous areas are somewhat similar. Alpha-Beta association, 0 to 2 percent slopes, is an example. An undifferentiated group is made up of two or more soils or miscellaneous areas that could be mapped individually but are mapped as one unit because similar interpretations can be made for use and management. The pattern and proportion of the soils or miscellaneous areas in a mapped area are not uniform. An area can be made up of only one of the major soils or miscellaneous areas, or it can be made up of all of them. Alpha and Beta soils, 0 to 2 percent slopes, is an example. Some surveys include miscellaneous areas. Such areas have little or no soil material and support little or no vegetation. Rock outcrop is an example. 12

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Custom Soil Resource Report Essex County, New Jersey URBONB—Urban land, Boonton substratum, 0 to 8 percent slopes Map Unit Setting National map unit symbol: w9cn Elevation: 50 to 500 feet Mean annual precipitation: 30 to 64 inches Mean annual air temperature: 46 to 79 degrees F Frost-free period: 131 to 178 days Farmland classification: Not prime farmland Map Unit Composition Urban land, boonton substratum: 90 percent Minor components: 10 percent Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. Description of Urban Land, Boonton Substratum Setting Landform: Ground moraines Landform position (three-dimensional): Lower third of mountainflank Down-slope shape: Linear, convex Across-slope shape: Linear Parent material: Surface covered by pavement, concrete, buildings, and other structures underlain by disturbed and natural soil material Typical profile H1 - 0 to 12 inches: material H2 - 12 to 47 inches: silt loam 2CBt1 - 47 to 58 inches: loamy sand 2CBt2 - 58 to 72 inches: loamy sand Interpretive groups Land capability classification (irrigated): None specified Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 8s Hydric soil rating: Unranked Minor Components Udorthents, boonton substratum Percent of map unit: 5 percent Landform: Ground moraines Landform position (three-dimensional): Lower third of mountainflank, upper third of mountainflank, center third of mountainflank Down-slope shape: Convex Across-slope shape: Linear Hydric soil rating: No Boonton Percent of map unit: 5 percent Landform: Ground moraines Landform position (three-dimensional): Upper third of mountainflank, center third of mountainflank Down-slope shape: Convex Across-slope shape: Linear

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sition (three-dimensional): Upper third of mountainflank, center third of mountainflank Down-slope shape: Convex Across-slope shape: Linear 13

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Custom Soil Resource Report Hydric soil rating: No USBONB—Urban land, Boonton substratum - Boonton complex, 0 to 8 percent slopes Map Unit Setting National map unit symbol: w9c1 Elevation: 0 to 520 feet Mean annual precipitation: 30 to 64 inches Mean annual air temperature: 46 to 79 degrees F Frost-free period: 131 to 213 days Farmland classification: Not prime farmland Map Unit Composition Urban land, boonton substratum: 60 percent Boonton and similar soils: 30 percent Minor components: 10 percent Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. Description of Urban Land, Boonton Substratum Setting Landform position (two-dimensional): Summit Landform position (three-dimensional): Talf Down-slope shape: Linear Across-slope shape: Linear Parent material: Asphalt over supraglacial meltout till Typical profile M - 0 to 12 inches: material 2^C - 12 to 47 inches: gravelly sandy loam 3CBt1 - 47 to 58 inches: loamy sand 3CBt2 - 58 to 72 inches: loamy sand Properties and qualities Slope: 0 to 8 percent Depth to restrictive feature: 0 inches to manufactured layer Runoff class: Very high Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Very low (0.00 to 0.00 in/hr) Calcium carbonate, maximum content: 10 percent Available water supply, 0 to 60 inches: Very low (about 0.0 inches) Interpretive groups Land capability classification (irrigated): None specified Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 8s Hydric soil rating: Unranked 14

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