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Page 1 of 2 Lisa Medina [EH] From: Sunnyrose [sunyrose@citlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:11 PM To: Lisa Medina [EH] Subject: Fw: traffic study Hello Lisa, 1. Thank you for the phone call today. I'm sure you are loaded up to your eyeballs with work! We appreciate all you guys are doing for us. We had some interesting findings and diverse conversations today. I have faxed one of them to you. It is the water usage from Lodi Java Stop. I faxed this to you so please let me know if you didn't get it. (Bob @ 209-369-9381) Bob (owner/mgr) mentioned today that he just bought another coffee place up in Oregon? hwy 97 1 believe... and its been around for years doing 250 cars per day. It really all depends on where you are at. Lisa, please remember that what we are doing is buying a portable commercial classroom building and converting part of it into kitchen and cold storage. This indeed is a test project. Should it be successful we hope to remove it within 3 years and replace it with a real drive thru facility. 2. We went and did a traffic count over at Burger King (Galt)just 3 miles away located on Fairway Drive along hwy 99. Its just about 100 feet from the freeway. This I believe would be a similar place compared to us because of where its located. They had 38 trips in and 38 trips out per peak hour for a total of 76 trip ends/hr. (4:45pm- 5:45pm). Shannon is the mgr @ 209-745-3583 We would think they would service 400 customers per day. 3. We also went to Dave at Anderson Engineering about the soil and also Monty Siebel (209-334-6523) regarding our soil. They said we have clay in our area therefore the lower perk at the 3 foot level. We also spoke with Mike Huggins and he said that clay was good for nitrates. 4. Current usage from Java Stop is 1900 cu ft. per month. 1900 times 7.4 gals = 14,060 gals. divided by 30.5 days = 460 gals per day. This company also does wine mfg so therefore the higher usage of 2500 for the previous month. So even with the 460 gals. currently some of this is from the winery. Bob said that there are about 1.1 customers per car and that they then serve 660 people per day. 660 divided by 460 gals = .7 gals per customer,Derday. (90 oz.)This includes all the wash up etc. We believe that in our case that even if there were 100 bathroom trips per day @ 1.5 gals per flush = 150 gals.....that another 300 gals would come from the kitchen containing water with sweeteners from the sodas and sugar from the coffees and baked goods. So a 33.3% bathroom/66.6% kitchen ratio.This would lower our nitrate loading situation. As Bob said today we must not forget that from the 90 oz per customer they take 20 oz of product off site so less than .5 gals per person stays on site. In his case 660 times .5 gals. = 330 gals per day for the septic field. So in our case lets take the 330 gals (kitchen) and add 150 gals of(bathroom)toilet flushes and have 480 gal perday_totaL 5. Plantation is another issue with the car numbers. We know Dan personally and he does about $1400 per day in sales. Our son Bryan worked for him for some time too. Java stop does about $2000 per day. Because Plantations car numbers seem just as high their traffic system is much different. People pass through their lot to a small school to the east and a bank to the south east and Shell gas station to the south. They also have a large school directly to the west of them. If Java's trips are 600 we know and believe Plantations are around 400 per day. Plantation serves baked goods whereas Java does not. Please note that no bathroom stops were noted at Java Stop. Bob confirmed this today. 6. Discussing this issue and comparing it by square ft leads to many problems. Talking to Bob at Java stop this pm he said that the windows of service is the key. For example if we have toll booths on the freeway and there are 20 toll booths side by side we can put 20 cars through at a time. With a single toll booth only one car at a time. Both of these coffee drive thrus have double pick up windows and we only have one pick up window. Burger King has one pick up window and there numbers are much lower. 7. Java Stop has approximately 2500 sq ft total. I would say at least 900-1000 ft would belong to the coffee business. His kiosk has no storage or bathroom facilities. I know it may seem like we are down playing a good 12/11/2003