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Evaluation of Natural attenuation: 7500 West Eleventh Street, Tracy, CA. Page 7 Pumping of floating product and heavily contaminated groundwater from the pits from which the underground tanks were exhumed in December 1998 successfully eliminated r - floating product from the area around Monitoring Well MW-3. Based on consideration of the hydraulic conductivity and hydrostratigraphy of the subsurface and the subsequent reduction in analytes of concern in Monitoring Well MW-3 and at other locations along the south side of West Eleventh Street, it was estimated that floating product and E � groundwater containing high concentrations of components of fuel hydrocarbons were removed from the groundwater over a radial distance of some 70 to 100 ft. (The San Joaquin Company Inc. 2004c, 2002c). That assessment has been confirmed by data obtained by analyses of groundwater samples recovered from Monitoring Well MW-13, which was installed in the median of F`#' West Eleventh Street in April 2004. The results show that concentrations of petroleum- and diesel-range hydrocarbons are significantly lower than those of similar analytes in Monitoring Well MW-7, which is further down-gradient from the release of hydrocarbons to the subsurface. _ { The floating product that accumulated in Monitoring Well MW-7 over the period April 2002 to October 2003 was eliminated by a program of purging of LNAPL from that well in late 2003 and early 2004. However, given the small 2-in. casing diameter of .a Monitoring Well MW-7, SJC was concerned that the intermittent rounds of LNAPL purging from that well would not be successful in removing floating product from more than a limited area of the subsurface within close proximity to that well and that any such limited effect would be temporary. This assessment has been supported by the steady increase in concentrations of fuel hydrocarbons in samples of groundwater recovered from MW-7 in the period since January 2004, when the quality of groundwater in that 'j well was first analyzed following completion of the purging program. Unfortunately, despite quarterlypurging of MW-7, by February 24 2005, when the condition of the water in that well was assessed as part of the groundwater-quality monitoring round reported herein, a thickness of 0.02 ft. of LNAPL was again detected in the well casing. LJ 1.5.2 Secondary Plume A secondary plume of diesel and gasoline, as shown on Figure 3, emanates from an area to the rear and slightly to the east of the Casa Mendoza restaurant on the 7500 West yy �� Eleventh Street property. Although no physical evidence of an underground or above- ground storage tank has been found there, it appears that, at some time in the past, there was a source of fuel hydrocarbons located in the vicinity of Monitoring Wells MW-12 and MW-12A see Figure 3 for locations When the 6,000 linear feet of underground piping that was found beneath the Navarra Site was removed in December 1998, a disconnected pipeline was discovered that ran from the general area of those monitoring i` wells toward the West Eleventh Street frontage of the property where the underground storage tanks that were removed at that time were located. E: As shown on Figure 2, underground fuel tanks were formerly located on the property at 24195 Chrisman Road, which adjoins the 7500 West Eleventh Street site to the south. f SJC