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PAGE Two - KING wND CLEANUP • <br /> AFTER ARRIVING WITH A CREW, FRONT END LOADER WITH BUCKET AND OTHER <br /> EQUIPMENT, rR. RON MARCHETTI WAS ON SITE FROM THE KING ISLAND RECLAMATION <br /> DISTRICT. PIR. MARCHETTI STAYED DURING THE ENTIRE DAY UNTIL 8;30 P.M SATURDAY <br /> NIGHT DURING THE CRUCIAL CLEANUP STAGES. FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE DELTA <br /> ISLANDS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN HOW VALUABLE MR. MARCHETTI 'S HELP AND <br /> ADVICE WAS, THE ISLANDS ARE PEAT AND REACT COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY THAN ANY <br /> OTHER TYPE OF SOIL. MR. MARCHETTI HAS FARMED ON KING ISLAND ALL HIS LIFE <br /> AND HIS HELP WAS INVALUABLE. HIS ADVICE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY THE REASON FOR OUR <br /> ABILITY TO REACT SO QUICKLY IN AVERTING ANY REAL AND PERMANENT HARM - WE <br /> ARE INDEBTED TO MR. MARCHETTI . <br /> SUBSTANTIAL HAND LABOR WAS NECESSARY AS THE LEAK APPEARED TO ORIGINATE <br /> UNDER A DECK ON TOP OF THE LEVY AND FLOW BACK ON THE EASTERN BACKSIDE OF THE <br /> LEVY TO THE ROAD BEHIND THE KING ISLAND OFFICES. NO FUEL APPEARED TO GO TOWARD <br /> OR INTO THE WATER, ]HE FUEL HAD GURGLED DOWN THE LEVY UNDER THE DECK AND <br /> STAIRS, ALONG A RETAINING WALL AND WAS PUDDLING ON THE GRASS AND INTO THE <br /> ROADWAY BEHING THE LEVY. THE LOADER OPENED UP THE FLAT AREA AND HAND WORK WAS <br /> REQUIRED TO DIG OUT ALL MATERIAL NEAR THE STAIRS AND UP AND UNDER THE DECK. <br /> FURTHER, THERE WERE WATER LINES, A SEWER PUMP OUT LINE AND ELECTRICAL CONDUITS <br /> IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE STAIRS. APPROXIMATELY FORTY (40) YARDS OF PEAT WAS <br /> EXCAVATED. ONE LOAD OF SANDY LOAM, TWENTY-TWO (22) YARDS, WAS DELIVERED ON <br /> SATURDAY AND USED TO BACKFILL TO COVER THE LARGEST AREA EXCAVATED TO AVERT <br /> ANY DANGER OF HAVING A LARGE CAVITY REMAIN OPEN DURING THE WEEKEND. IT WAS <br /> DETERMINED THAT FALCON WOULD RETURN MONDAY TO COMPLETE LOCATING THE LEAK <br /> UNDER THE DECK. MR. CARPENTER DETERMINED THAT HE WOULD HAVE THE DECK OPEN <br /> FOR US UPON RETURN, <br /> SUNDAY, 20 AUGUST. 1989 <br /> .IIM HOBLITZELL AND BILL DORCEY INSPECTED THE SITE DURING SUNDAY <br /> MORNING IN THE DAYLIGHT AS A PRECAUTION. I"IHILE AT THE SITE, P"R. STEVE <br /> WOODARD WAS ALSO INSPECTING AND WE MADE OUR OBSERVATIONS TO HIM. THIS <br /> WAS NOT A MANDATORY INSPECTION AND THERE WERE NO CHARGES FOR THIS SUNDAY <br /> INSPECTION. FALCON FELT THIS INSPECTION WAS SIMPLY PRUDENT. <br /> MONDAY, 21 AUGUST, 1989 <br /> MR. BILL DORCEY SUPERVISED OPERATIONS DURING THE DAY WHICH CONSISTED <br /> PRIMARILY OF WORKING UNDER THE DECK AREA WHICH HAD BEEN OPENED BY MR. <br /> CARPENTER. AGAIN, THIS WAS PRIMARILY HAND WORK IN A CONFINED SPACE. IT <br />