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' U eolo iutTechmaIna Page 2� g 2°d Quarter 2003 Groundwater Monitor ng Report Project No 507 2 September 24,2003 1.0 GROUNDWATER MONITORING 1.1 Hydrogeology of Site The geology of the site is predominately clays and sandy clays with lesser amounts of silts ' and sands The average groundwater elevation was —10 87 feet below msl on June 24, 2003, which corresponds to approximately 16 feet below grade surface (bgs) This elevation represents a decrease of 0 57 feet since the March 18, 2003 monitoring event A ' specific groundwater gradient could not be calculated due to anomalous elevations in wells MW-5, 7, & 10 This site consistently exhibits a flat groundwater gradient The gradient direction for the June 2003 monitoring event is shown in Figure 2, and the historical groundwater directions and gradients are shown in Figure 3, Groundwater ' Gradient Rose Diagram The groundwater elevation data are summarized in Table 1, Appendix A Table 5 provides a summary of monitoring well construction An anomalous low is present in the vicinity of well MW-5 as shown in Figure 2 This is accompanied by an anomalous "low" in well MW-7 and "high" in well MW-10 that results in variable gradients for the event As evident in Figure 3, groundwater exhibited a strong bifurcated flow regime in 2000, trending predominantly to the southwest or north-northeast at approximately 180-degree direction reversal Since the installation of wells MW-7 and MW-10 in May 2001, the direction had been to the east-northeast in eight of ten quarterly ' events The site is quite close to the San Joaquin River and tidal fluctuations may contribute to some of the observed changes in groundwater direction ' Vertical Groundwater Gradients Under vertical groundwater flow conditions, the water level in a monitoring well is a ' function of the length of the well screen and its depth or vertical position in the aquifer As with horizontal flow conditions, the diameter of the well or piezometer is immaterial ' The following procedure is used to calculate vertical groundwater gradient • Determine the vertical distance between the two measuring devices by the distance from the mid-point between the top and bottom seal of the deep well (MW-1 09) and the mid- _ point between the groundwater elevation and the bottom seal in the shallow well (MW- 9) • Measure the head in both wells used in the calculations ' 0 If the lateral distance between the well pair is greater than a few feet, then calculations must be made to correct the down-gradient piezometnc head to account for the sloping water table between the wells The calculation considers the slope of the water table and the distance in a down-gradient direction between the two wells used in the calculations