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FEC 51462 01 UniFirst Stockton September 24 2004 North, Hunter Avenue on the east, Flora Street on the South, and El Dorado Avenue on the west A meeting hall, located on the southeast corner of the site, is not part of the subject site The location of the subject site is shown on Figure 1 The current laundry facility was constructed in 2002 The south half of the subject site is currently undergoing grading for a parking lot as part of a site redevelopment project The location of the subject site with respect to the city block is shown on Figure 2 2.2 Site History ' The current site configuration is a result of the site redevelopment project begun in 2002 The current site layout consists of the UniFirst laundry facility which occupies the north half of the lot, a meeting hall located in the southeast corner of the site, and a parking lot in the southwest corner Prior to site redevelopment activities, the site consisted of an industrial laundry facility in the southwest corner, the meeting hall in the southeast corner, residential houses and apartments to the north and east, retail businesses to the west, and an automotive sales lot to the northwest ' Historically, the subject site had a variety of business and residential dwellings located at the site The businesses included an industrial laundry facility, gasoline service stations, a sanitarium, a meeting hall, single family homes,and apartment buildings Former businesses of potential environmental concern included the laundry facility and the gasoline service stations The original laundry building was constructed in the 1920's and the east plant addition was built in the 1940's The southwest corner lot operated as a corner gasoline station until the laundry facility owner converted it into parking and a vehicle fueling area for the laundry facility The northwest comer lot operated as an automobile service station until the 1960's In 1990, the owners of the Parisian laundry removed two underground storage tanks (UST's) from the southwest corner parking lot and one UST from the laundry boiler room Tetrachloroethene (PCE) dry cleaning was reportedly performed at the laundry between 1948 and 1983 In August 2002, underground piping and petroleum-impacted soil was encountered during construction activities at the northwestern property boundary UniFirst retained EEC to ' determine if any UST's were present that may be associated with the piping, determine the extent of petroleum-impacted soil, and remediate the petroleum impacted soil After consultation with UniFirst and UniFirst's legal counsel, the SJCEHD was contacted to provide regulatory oversight of soil remediation at the site On August 8, 2002, EEC submitted a workplan to SJCEHD review (Appendix A) On August 9, 2002, SJCEHD approved the workplan and entered into an agreement with UniFirst to provide oversight for removal of the petroleum impacted soil Between August 8, 2002 and August 19, 2002, EEC removed the underground piping and petroleum impacted soil Approximately 225 tons of petroleum-impacted soil was removed and disposed of at Forward Landfill in Stockton, California These activities are documented in EEC's Final Report for Investigation and Removal of Discolored Soil at the Former Used Auto Sales Lot dated September 17, 2002 In addition, a geophysical survey conducted at the site ' indicated that no UST's were present beneath the site Based on the recommendation of the SJCEHD, soil samples were collected at the subject property No significant hydrocarbon- impacted soil was detected in these samples, therefore, the SJCEHD determined that no formal oversight was required t 2