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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD <br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br /> TECHNICAL REPORTING ORDER NO. R5-2011-0800 <br /> CALIFORNIA WATER CODE SECTION 13267 <br /> FOR <br /> VALLEY PACIFIC PETROLEUM SERVICES, INC. <br /> 23100 SOUTH KASSON ROAD, BANTA <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> This Order is issued to Valley Pacific Petroleum Services Inc. (hereafter "Discharger"), <br /> pursuant to California Water Code section 13267, which authorizes the California <br /> Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region (hereafter "Central Valley <br /> Water Board" or"Board") to require the preparation and submittal of technical and <br /> monitoring reports. <br /> The Executive Officer of the Central Valley Water Board finds: <br /> PROPERTY OWNERSHIP AND OPERATIONS <br /> 1. The Discharger owns the property at 23100 South Kasson Road in Banta, San <br /> Joaquin County (hereafter the "Site"). An incident report prepared by the San. <br /> Joaquin County Environmental Health Division (SJCEHD) documents that a release <br /> of about 50 gallons of diesel fuel occurred on 14 March 1998 at the Site. The <br /> Discharger owns and operates the aboveground storage tanks (AGTs)that were the <br /> source of this unauthorized release. A site plan is shown on Figure 1. <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> 2. The Site is an active gasoline and diesel cardlock fueling operation that began <br /> dispensing fuel in 1994. Three AGTs are located near the west side of the Site.. <br /> Initially, the Site included two AGTs, a 15,000-gallon diesel AGT and a 2,000-gallon <br /> gasoline AGT. A third AGT, with a 20,000-gallon capacity and used to store diesel, <br /> was installed around 2004. Based on aerial photos, much of the Site was unpaved as <br /> recently as 2004. <br /> 3. The SJCEHD incident report for the 1998 release stated that about 7-8 gallons of the <br /> 50-gallon diesel spill flowed from a bermed area onto an unpaved surface. Cleanup <br /> of this spill occurred over two to four days following the release by using adsorbent <br /> -pads to soak up the diesel from the.ground surface and by excavating shallow <br /> contaminated soil. Diesel fuel was visible on the unpaved surface until <br /> 16 March 1998. The SJCEHD report documents that five containers of waste were <br /> generated at the completion of the cleanup. However, there is no record of <br /> reclamation of the other 42 gallons of diesel from.the bermed area, a disposal <br /> location for the five containers of waste, nor any evidence that samples were taken <br />