The wettest soils and the sharpest divide we work
Johnson County holds both ends of our range. Franklin is the flattest and wettest profile, with four of its top eight soils poorly or somewhat poorly drained and the most mapped floodplain of any town we serve. Trafalgar, in the southwest, is the steepest ground we work at roughly 252 feet of relief.
Whiteland is the only town on our list where poorly drained, hydric-rated Brookston is the number one soil, so wet is its default condition. Bargersville has the newest housing in the county and more slope than its neighbors. Franklin runs an active program asking homeowners to disconnect sump pumps and yard drains from the sanitary sewer, which is work we do.
Trafalgar sits on the sharpest divide in our area: Goose Creek runs to the White River and Ray Creek runs, by an entirely separate route, to the East Fork. Two neighbors can be in different major basins.
Johnson County, from the ground up