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' Site Background Information QUICK N SAVE #1 1941 South El Dorado Street, Stockton, California ' INTRODUCTION ' The site is located in the southern portion of the City of Stockton, San Joaquin County, on the southwest corner of the intersection of South El Dorado Street and Fifth Street Land use of the surrounding properties is generally residential,with commercial use along South El Dorado Street Figure 1 shows the subject property which is located in the southeast quarter of Section 14, Township 1 North, Range 6 East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian (7 5 Minute United States Geological Survey(USGS) Topographic Series, Stockton West, California, photo revised 1987) at ' an elevation of 10 feet above mean sea level and in an area of very low topographic relief The regional slope of the area is relatively gentle and dips toward the west-southwest ' The site occupies approximately 13,761 square-feet and is listed as Parcel 19 on Map 08 on file in Book 165 (APN 165-080-19) of the San Joaquin County Tax Assessor's Office ' Most of the surface of Parcel 19 is paved with asphalt or is covered by a structure and gasoline dispenser islands The site is currently utilized for a gasoline fueling station and a mini-mart The prominent features on the property are depicted in Figure 2 REGIONAL GEOLOGIC/HYDROLOGIC SETTING The roe is situated within the Great Valley property rty Geomorphic Province of California, a large, ' elongate, north-northwest trending, asymmetric structural trough The Great Valley Province has been filled with thick sequences of sediment ranging in age from Jurassic to Recent,creating a nearly flat- lying alluvial plain, extending from the Tehachapi Mountains in the south to the Klamath ' Mountains in the north The western and eastern boundaries of this province are comprised of the California Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada, respectively Rocks composing the basement complex of the province have not been completely defined but are believed to be metamorphic and ' igneous in origin The northern and southern portions of the Great Valley Province have been designated the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, respectively ' Based on the General Soil Map from the San Joaquin County Soil Survey, published by the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service in 1992, the site area is within the Jackson-Hallenbeck-Stockton (JHS) association The JHS soils are located within basins, and ' generally consist of moderate to poorly drained fine textured soils The soils are generally derived from both marine and non-marine sediment, and are generally formed in alluvium derived from mixed rock sources ' The Modesto,Riverbank, Turlock Lake Formations and overlying recent alluvium are theprincipal • source of domestic ground water in the 13,500 square-mile San Joaquin Valley Ground Water Baslr.,/ �- ' Advanced GeoEnvironmental,Inc i 1 I