Since early settler days, the great Piedmont belt of rolling clay hills has undergone drastic changes. Not infrequently, a foot of topsoil has been lost. The subsoil is typically a tight, impervious clay that sheds water rather than taking it in and storing it. Channels of once-clear streams are now filled with eroded soil, and during rainy seasons the red creeks and rivers overflow their banks in wide swamps and floodplains.

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