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Environmental Health Department SAN JOAQUIN v Complaint Record Daily Time and Activity Summary from 6/21/2013 to 6/21/2020 for C00040238 located at 801 DIAMOND ST Recorded by Activity Date 08/21/2015 On 08/21/2015 at 9:13 Lowell Allen called me asking if EHD has been notified PE 2546 SAEED 90 min about Pesticide spill on the railroad. I told Lowell that I have not heard anything SC 544 about the incident. I asked Lowell if he has any information about the location of the incident, but he told me he did not. Lowell asked to talk to Muni. I talked to Muni and Muni pulled out the spill report and asked me to call the person that is listed on the spill report. I called the number on the spill report and I was given Justine Bieber of BNSF phone number. I called Justine and he told me that he had been talking to Elena Manzo about the incident. Justine stated that they had a release of Metam Sodium coming out of the liquid valve from the top of a tank car. Justine told me that the leak is about 5 gallons, but only half to one cup made it to the ground. He told me that NRC environmental already cleaned up the spill. Muni and I responded to the incident. Robert Pelletier of the Ag Commissioner Office was there and inspected the spill with us. We met with Mike Garcia of BNSF and he directed us to tank car. I took photos. The leak already stopped. The location where the leak started could not be verified. However, we were told the leak started at East Track 139 Lane 5 . We inspected Lane 5 to ensure the clean up was done properly. At 2:27 1 called NRC environmental; I left a voice mail and sent email to Jason Meehan to follow up with waste disposal and disposal records. 08/21/2015 1 printed the site map with the incident location. I created a photo page for the PE 2546 SAEED 30 min incident photos and sent them to Elena. SC 544 08/21/2015 Downloaded and printed pictures, created picture file, created incident map, PE 2546 MANZO 42 min created a complaint. Organized inspection paperwork, entered narrative. SC 544 08/21/2015 Prop 65 preparation PE 2546 MANZO 24 min SC 203 08/21/2015 04:48: Received a page from the general hospital. The operator indicated that she PE 2546 MANZO 48 min paged around 00:30 as well, I checked the pager(no pages came through during SC 977 the night) the operator indicated that she was re-paging again before she left to go home; the second page came through. Called David Kedblum (817-352-2833)with BNSF who reported a Matam Sodium spill (<5 gallons) from a rail car (UTLX200074) located at 720 S B Street, Stockton, CA. The spill was discovered at 00:02, the substance leaked from the top of the car and dripped down its side. NRC was retained to conduct the clean-up. He indicated that Justin Piper (360-553-8672), the environmental manager is in charge of the clean up and will have more information. David indicated that no water waterways were impacted and the contractor(NRC)was on site at 03:37 am. David indicated that NRC estimated that approximately 10 drops of product made it to the ground below the car. Researched Metam Sodium: pesticide (soil fumigant) solution week killing liquid, has a sulfur like odor, is corrosive to brass, copper and zinc. 05:15 called Justin Piper, who indicated that NRC inspected the car, liquid valve on the top of the car was loose; the liquid sloshed out and leaked down the side of the car and dripped to the ground. The impacted soil was shoveled up, and placed in a container. They have SDS for the determination, and will handle the soil as hazardous if the determination indicated its hazardous. Clean-up is complete, 1 shovel full of impacted soil was generated, his email is (justin.piper@bnsf.com) for further communication. Called Justin back after doing more research on the spilled chemical, discussed, that all clean up rags and other PPE generated during the clean -up will also be containerized and handled per the hazardous waste determination. Justin concurred that it will be handled as appropriate. Provided an update to Kasey F (program coordinator), documented the complaint. Page 1 of 2