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File No.2499-47 20 May 1991 Paoe 3 ' According to City of Lodi Building Department records, the two buildings were constructed under a single building permit issued on 23 January 1939. The school ' district stopped its use of the structures in the early 1960's, when a unified school district was formed. The maintenance building was demolished, while the bus garage was remodeled for commercial use. The bus garage was torn down in 1985. ' It appeared likely that the school district may have installed underground storage tanks on the property to refuel the school busses. However, because school district ' property is not taxed, the bus garage was never inspected by county officials. Therefore, no assessment records exist indicating if tanks existed on the property. ' Similarly, the City of Lodi Building Department files contain no record of tanks on the site. The City of Lodi Fire Department has no records of any tanks in the city ' which were removed before 1973. We spoke with Mr. Jerry Klien of the Lodi Unified School District regarding ' whether fuel tanks had existed on the site. Mr. Klien attempted to locate records of the tank locations; he could find none. He then contacted several retired employees of the former school district and questioned them about the presence of tanks on the site. Based on those discussions, Mr. Klien concluded that two underground tanks probably had existed on the property. Aerial photographs of the site suggest the tanks may have been located east of the ' maintenance building, while former workers at the facility recalled the tanks as having been located east of the bus garage. ' Given the construction techniques of the 1960's, Mr. Klien believed that the tanks were more likely to have been abandoned in place rather than removed. He could find no records of the tanks beinz removed, or of the fuel pumps being removed. Mr. Klien stated that he did not believe a waste oil tank would have existed on the school grounds, based on his experience of repair shop practices at the time. Waste ' oil was probably collected in barrells and sold to area businesses and farms for weed control purposes, he said. ' Mr. Klein also informed us that the maintanence building was well equipped and included a mechanic's pit and a vehicle lift. ' In May 1990, ACG conducted a geophysical survey of suspect portions of the site for evidence of abandoned underground storage tanks. Both the former location of thebu— s garag a e approximate ormer location of the maintenance building were surveyed using a magnetometer and ground-penetrating radar equipment. (At the time of our survey, we were unaware of the existence of the smaller t rnj ANGERSGN CGNGl1LTING GRGl1P 0