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contamination: There are no transformers on-site. Therefore,there is no concern of polychloride biphenyls (PCBs)contamination. There was no evidence of solid waste disposal. The site was carefully inspected for environmental concerns originating from discolored, disturbed or subsided soils, stressed vegetation or unusual or noxious odors. None of these environmental indicators were present. No hazardous materials are stored in the remaining referenced buildings and there was no indication or observations of spills, drums or other items associated with hazardous materials in or around these buildings. Although agrichemicals are grower applied,there is no agrichemical storage since the company supplying the agrichemicals transport used containers back to their facility. An important concern associated with the environmental assessment of agricultural properties is the issue of buried pesticide containers. It was an occasional practice to dispose of containers by this method many years ago. To detect these types of underground artifacts is difficult even with the use of ground penetrating radar or other types of non-intrusive, subsurface analyses. The land surface did not exhibit visual indicators for buried containers such as surfacing of product residue, soil mounding/soil depressions or dying/dead trees. The static groundwater is found approximately 15 feet under the property as illustrated on the attached depth to groundwater map. This is considered a shallow groundwater elevation. High groundwater can be easily impacted from pesticides or nitrogen in the form of nitrates. However, if there are intervening layers of clay soil down to the drinking water aquifers,this offers a measure of protection. The groundwater directional flow is probably towards the Stanislaus River, or to the southwest. Found in the Appendix is an Application Material Report listing all pesticides applied to the subject property for the crop years 1997, 1998 and to-date. As referenced,the subject property has been in almond production for five years; therefore, an evaluation of agrichemical residues as a nonpoint source of potential contamination was performed. The science of pesticide residues in soil, air, surface water and groundwater is extremely complex and variable. Environmental models which attempt to predict pesticide behavior and transport in the environment are beyond the scope of this investigation. It has been clearly evident over the last five decades that the risk/benefit ratio regarding pesticides has been overwhelming benefit and comparatively low risk to the United States population and the environment, as a whole. The following is environmental fate data of the pesticides which were applied to the subject property, as documented. This list illustrates environmental fate data, indicating the half-lives are comparatively fast. Data, if available, was obtained from the Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Pesticide Chemicals: Trillin. Common name: Trifluralin, Treflan. Half-lives in the environment: Groundwater: degradation time 9 days (d). Surface water: 21 minutes. 3 COs *ality COont.1 Inspection