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APPENDIX E SITE RECONNAISSANCE INTERVIEW AND OBSERVATIONS REPORT Bechtel Environmental, Inc. P.O. Box 193965 San Francisco, CA 94119-3965 OBSERVATIONS MADE BY: Traci Grizzle and Kathryn Curtis DATE: May 3, 1993 FACILITY REPRESENTATIVE(S) and TITLE(S): Jack Vaughn, property owner SFI'E: Cox and Cox Property EPA ID: CAD 983649294 A site reconnaissance was conducted at the Cox and Cox Property (Cox & Cox) site on May 3, 1993. The weather was slightly cloudy and the temperature was approximately 70°F. The Bechtel Environmental, Inc. (BEI) team, Traci Grizzle and Kathryn Curtis, were to conduct the site reconnaissance at 10 a.m. with Ed Frenchi, the business tenant and operator at the Cox & Cox site, to gather information on the site location and size, site history,processes used, and any hazardous waste generated, treated, stored or disposed of on site. Mr. Frenchi, however, did not attend the scheduled visit, and could not be contacted. Instead, the site reconnaissance visit was conducted with Jack Vaughn, the property owner, at 10:30 a.m. The BEI team was granted permission to tour the site unescorted and to take photographs. The site owner, however, suggested that the BEI team contact his lawyer for any further information. The following information was obtained during the site reconnaissance: Cox & Cox is in a relatively flat, commercial area of Tracy. The site consists of a 1.4-acre lot occupied by Mr. Ed's Mufflers and Brakes at 595 East Eleventh St., a trailer park at 507; East Eleventh St., and a vacant building at 599 East Eleventh St. 'fie site is bordered on the north by an unpaved alley and Tracy Joint Union High School,on the south by Eleventh Street, on the west by Cox Brothers' Firestone tire service,and on the east by a vacant dirt lot. Mr. Ed's consists of a garage with an office area, a reception area, an outdoor drum storage area, and a paved parking lot. A former underground storage tank area is now an excavation pit, approximately 25 feet long by 33 feet wide and 11 feet deep, surrounded by a 6-foot-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. The area was excavated to remove underground gasoline and waste oil storage tanks in 1990. A large bin in front of the former underground storage tank area is used to store equipment. Soil from the excavation is uncontained and piled in the northeast corner of the trailer park. The adjacent trailer park houses 14 residential trailers and a laundry facility for coin-operated washers and dryers. The vacant building on site is approximately 30 feet wide by 45 feet long, with a parking lot. The perimeter of the site is fenced,except for the side that borders Eleventh Street. Surface water runoff from the site flows into storm drains along Eleventh Street. PA Cox&Cox-BB•"3 E-1 Pnwad on 50%roWdod pWw.