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San Joaquin County DIRECTOR Donna Heran, REHS y0._ f.CIO Environmental Health Department ASSISTANT DIRECTOR 600 East Main Street Laurie Cotulla, REHS a: Za Stockton, California 95202-3029 PROGRAM COORDINATORS ,y Carl Borgman, REHS • C4'��`' �P Website: www.s /ehd Mike Huggins, REHS, RDI <rpOg� �gov.or g Margaret Lagorio,REHS Phone: (209)468.3420 Robert McCallon, REHS Fax: (209)464-0138 Jeff Carruesco,REHS, RDI Kasey Foley, REHS TO: David Irey, Supervising Deputy District Attorney San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office Environmental Prosecution Unit FROM: Donna Heran, REHS, Director San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department DATE: July 14, 2008 RE: US Sprint 3807 Coronado Avenue Stockton, CA 95204 I. CASE SUMMARY On September 23, 2002, secondary containment testing was performed on the 10,000- gallon diesel underground storage tank (UST) by Shirley Environmental Testing at the above-referenced facility, and a report was submitted to this office on October 4, 2002, (Attachment 1). The secondary piping runs did not pass. On February 19, 2003, a permit application, SR0032811, was submitted by Shirley Environmental Testing to repair the failed secondary containment components. The application was approved by Ms. Dina Abate, Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS), San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department (EHD), on March 3, 2003. This permit application cannot be found in the EHD's files. On November 13, 2003, Mr. John Jackson, REHS, EHD, performed a routine UST inspection (Attachment 2) and witnessed the annual monitoring system certification (Attachment 3). During the inspection, Mr. Jackson found the EHD did not have current UST — Facility and UST — Tank forms for this facility on file, monitoring and response plans had not been completed, and maintenance records were not available for inspection. The inspection report did not properly document that the secondary containment failures had not been addressed and that the approved permit application, SR0032811, had expired. On December 2, 2003, testing was performed by L.A. Perks Plumbing and Heating Inc., (L.A. Perks) to find the source of the secondary containment failures. No repairs had been made at this point, and the secondary piping runs still did not pass inspection. It was noted in the report that the supply line had a leak underground and the return line had a leak inside the building (Attachment 4). This testing was performed for diagnostic