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STATE OF CALIFORNIA-Environmental Proon Agency . PETE WILSON,Governor CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION 3443 Routier Road, Suite A Sacramento, CA 95827-3098 45 PHONE: (918) 2553000 FAX: (918) 2553015 8 July 1994 Mr. Eric Horton Mr. William Miles Ms. Patricia Nolet Independent Trucking P.O. Box 1288 3 Mountain Shadow Lane P.O. Box 6698 Los Altos, CA 94023 Monterey, CA 93940 Stockton, CA 95206 SOIL AND GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION, INDEPENDENT TRUCKING FACILITY, STOCKTON, SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY This letter is to reiterate the Board's position concerning the subject site. Independent Trucking, Inc. (ITL) caused waste oil contamination in the soils below the site due to its admitted practice of waste oil disposal into a septic tank. However, total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) in the form of diesel and gasoline, aromatic hydrocarbons, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) also have been found in the subsurface soils, and a source for these constituents has not been determined. ITI believes that a significant percentage of the contamination found was caused by activities which occurred prior to its presence on the property which began in 1985. Because the full extent of the contamination remains undefined and stockpiled soils need to be remediated or disposed of, we sent a 15 April 1994 letter to ITT requesting a site assessment work plan by 6 May 1994. We subsequently assigned Mr. William Miles and Ms. Patricia Nolet (property owners) as co-responsible parties along with TTI, and required them to submit the work plan by 24 June 1994. A 13 May 1994 letter from Mr. Larry Bradfish (TTI's lawyer) states, "The current site owners...have done nothing to investigate and clean up the site...in any respect whatsoever". This contradicts what has been told to us by Mr. Robert Tautze, representative of Mr. Miles and Ms. Nolet, who says that the property owners have been sharing 50 percent of the costs with ITL for all the investigation and cleanup that ITL has undertaken to date. Mr. Lautze stated that zine properly owners wul soon be contacang iii regarding this nater. Based on the above information, we find that Independent Trucking, Mr. William Miles, and Ms. Patricia Nolet all share responsibility for remediating the site pursuant to Water Code Section 13304. We hereby extend the deadline for submittal of the work plan until 1 August 1994. We urge all of the responsible parties involved to come to an agreement to allow the site investigation and remediation to proceed.