Mouse, great advice although you should always flush and water at pH7 other wise you will not be able to read runoff very accuratly neither raise it correctly in a flush.
I could water acidic soil at pH8 and get runoff of 6.3 and think my soils ok but in reallity if i watered at pH7 and got runoff of 5.1 then i would easily be able to see a problem. Peace