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t <br /> !� h'g KLEINFELDER <br /> LAURIE T. RACCA, R.G. <br /> Area Environmental Manager/Client Service Manager <br /> Summary of Experience <br /> Laurie Racca is a geologist with 9 years of environmental project experience specializing <br /> s. Ms. Racca has a Bachelor of <br /> in evaluation of properties for real estate transaction <br /> Science degree in geology (Registered Geologist # 6980), with continuing education in <br /> hazardous waste management, asbestos, radon, and lead-based paint. Her responsibilities <br /> include project management and technical support for Phase I ESAs, asbestos surveys <br /> and abatement projects, and assessment of soil and groundwater contamination. Some of <br /> the industries she has experience with include plastics manufacturers, food processing <br /> plants, commercial wineries, large agricultural farms and processing operations, schools, <br /> restaurants, shopping centers and REITS, dry cleaners, hotels, military bases, airports, <br /> mines, oil fields and bulk storage facilities, service stations, utility/transportation <br /> corridors, and undeveloped properties. She has conducted and/or managed over 800 <br /> Phase I ESAs in the United States and Mexico. <br /> Education <br /> BS Geology, California State University,Fresno, 1990 <br /> Certifications <br /> OSHA Health and Safety Training for Hazardous Waste Workers <br /> i <br /> Select Project Experience <br /> A representative selection of Ms. Racca's project experience is included below. <br /> Plant Closure and Redevelopment, Former Spreckels Sugar Plant No. 2, Spreckels <br /> Development Committee, Manteca, California. Conducted a Phase I ESA of a 362 <br /> t <br /> acre beet sugar processing plant which began operation resulting in 1916 g twenty- <br /> nine <br /> Y- <br /> nine recommendations for further assessment or mitigation. Environmental concerns <br /> included former plant operations and equipment maintenance, underground and above <br /> ground fuel storage, on-site landfills, buried debris, and agricultural operations. A <br /> field investigation program was developed to address the recommendations of the <br /> Assessment techniques included the collection of samples from 321 <br /> Phase I ESA. q <br /> collection of discrete groundwater samples, <br /> locations, colle <br /> soil borings and surface sample loc , <br /> installation of groundwater monitoring wells, soil-gas probes, and geophysical <br /> techniques. Statistical and risk assessment approaches were utilized to evaluate much <br /> of the data. Because of the impending sale of the property, the entire project was <br /> conducted on a fast track basis. <br /> Flood Damage Geologic Engineering, Highway SO Storm Damage Repairs, Mill <br /> Creek Slide, Caltrans, EI Dorado County, California. Heavy rainfall and high river <br /> flows during the 1997 New Years Day floods caused extensive highway and <br /> embankment washouts and hillside slope failures, including a massive mudslide that <br /> Racca,Laurie (1100) 1 <br /> t <br />