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Environmental Health Department SAN,JOAQUIN —COUNTY - Complaint Record Daily Time and Activity Summary from 3/1/2015 to 6/21/2034 for CO0045285 located at 3 S PACIFIC AVE Activity Date Recorded by 12/15/2017 Received notification that at 5 AM today there was a container fire containing PE 2546 RIVERA 294 min chemicals that went down the storm drain at Lodi Unified. SC 544 8:13 AM Called Mitch Slater. The fire occurred in the custodial storage container at Lodi High School, at the back of the school near the soccer field. A safety officer is keeping kids away from the area. A plumber is investigating the extent of the storm drain contamination and will use plugs to keep it from travelling, if needed. The container held cleaners, waxes, disinfectants, and miscellaneous other supplies. Ramos Environmental has been contacted to conduct clean up and will arrive around 10 or 11 AM. Jeff Culverson is the HAZWOPER trained person on scene. 9:49 AM Arrived on site. Met with Mitch Slater and Jill Davis, Risk Management Analyst for Lodi Unified. Liquid from fire clean up was observed on the ground amongst the burned waste. Some liquid spread to the soccer field behind the container. A small amount of liquid entered the storm drain just north of the container, but did not appear to spread to adjacent storm drains. Particles from the fire were observed on the soccer field behind the container. It was unclear whether the particles got there from wind or water, but no wind was noted while on site. Some water run off from the fire response was observed on the ground behind the container, in the soccer field area. The full extent of water run off contamination could not be determined. 10:15 AM Joe Ormonde with Ramos Environmental arrived. Ramos Environmental will handle the clean up of the waste, container, and storm drain, with assistance from R& B Environmental. Samples are being planned for the possible contamination of the soccer field. 10:30 AM Called the City of Lodi reporting system to notify them of the contamination in the storm drain system. Mitch Slater contacted a third party consultant to locate an ELAP certified lab for analytical of the soil samples. They are anticipating toxicity testing, including 96-hour bioassay. 10:43 AM Andrew Likewood with the City of Lodi (209-769-0053)called to get more information about the situation at the site. He called Mitch Slater and discussed the clean up with him. 11:15 AM 55 gallon drums were delivered to the site for containment of the fire debris as hazardous waste solids. All solids will be packaged and managed as hazardous waste. Issued a Notice to Abate for the spill. Copies were provided to Eric Wise and Mitch Slater with Lodi Unified. Ramos is planning to wait to do the storm drain cleaning until school gets out later this afternoon. Lodi Unified will provide sample jars for soil sampling later this afternoon, also. Safety data sheets were provided by Jill Davis for all of the chemicals that are stored in the container, which included dry deodorants, chewing gum&candle wax remover, foam hand & body shampoo, quat based disenfectant, dust cloth treatment, glass & multi-surface cleaner, surface creme cleanser, bathroom cleaner&scale remover, neutral floor cleaner, waterbased floor finish, non-ammoniated glass& multi-purpose cleaner, floor stripper, general purpose cleaner with hydrogen peroxide, Clorox disinfecting spray, and cleaning agent. Jill Davis and Joe Ormonde both stated they took pH samples of the liquid accumulated around the fire debris and found approximately pH 11. Left the site Page 2 of 3