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I <br /> 1 <br />' CONTACT PERSON: <br /> Steve Valentine, (209) 477-3471 <br /> 1 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> The property consists of approximately 1/10th acre, located on <br />' the southwest corner of No. El Dorado Ave & Castle Street. <br /> The Assessor' s parcel number is 125-1.00--17. <br />' REGIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: <br /> The property is situated in a primarily residential area of the <br /> city of Stockton, approximately midway between Interstate I-5 to <br />' the west & Highway 99 to the east. City Hall & County Government <br /> buildings are about 1 1/2 miles to the south, and the University <br /> of the Pacific is a short distance to the northwest. Refer to <br />' PLATE I for more details. <br /> GEOLOGIC & GEOMORPHIC PROVINCE: <br /> The site is located near the southern end of the Sacramento <br /> Valley, a sub-province of what is known as the Great Valley of <br /> California. The Sacramento Valley is composed of in excess of <br /> ' <br /> 25,000 feet of sediments derived from erosion and uplift of the <br /> Sierra Nevada Batholith to the east. The sediments range in age <br /> from Recent to Cretaceous & possibly older, and consist of sands, <br /> gravels, silts, & clays produced by repeated reworking of the <br /> ' outwash from the Sierras_ <br /> Relief is very flat, less than 5' /mile, with drainage to the <br /> ' southeast towards the Sacramento-Stockton Delta area. The <br /> Calaveras River is about one mile to the north--northeast, and <br /> Mormon Slough is roughly 2 miles to the south. PLATE II_,_ from a <br /> ' USGS topographic sheet, shows the location of the property in <br /> relation to other nearby features. <br /> ' SOIL CLASSIFICATION: <br /> According to the 1952 publication issued by the University of <br /> California, Berkley, the soil is this area is known as Stockton <br /> ' Adobe Clay. It is a dark grey to brown alluvial soil derived as <br /> outwash from basic igneous sources, (ie, the Sierra Nevada Bath- <br /> olith. ) It is considered to have imperfect drainage, having <br /> hardpan subsoil layers generally underlain with unconsolidated <br /> material. The Storie Index, 28, gives it a classification as <br /> poor. PLATE III is a portion of a soils profile map from the <br /> 1 above publication. <br /> ' 2 <br />