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be responsible for their removal. He further stated that the Church had no prior knowledge of the stand pipes and no prior knowledge of the underground storage tanks until the abatement notice issued by Letitia Briggs of the San Joaquin County Public Health Service dated March 12, 2001. • Previously in time, a contractor, Time Warner under contract with Level 3 Telecommunications, had horizontally drilled and installed several fiber-optic lines under the sidewalk running parallel to and adjacent to Hunter Street with the intent to bring the fibre- optic lines into the Pacific Telephone Building across Hunter Street from the subject location. Jim Thorpe Oil was contracted to remove the tanks. The excavation preparing for the removal of the tanks, exposed that drilling operation by Time Warner had pierced both of the tanks and subsequently they had installed several of the fiber-optic lines through the middle of both tanks. It was determined that it would have been too great a risk and possibly too expensive to remove the tanks from the fiber-optic lines. • The city was anxious for the restaurant to become relocated into the property and since the tanks were located in city property the city accepted responsibility for resolving the tank issue. Checking with your records from San Joaquin Environmental Health Department could verify that process. At that time, the church was not any longer considered to be involved in the tank removal and the church did not receive any further communication nor documentation referencing any responsibility for these two tanks. The end result, at the risk of damaging the fiber optic lines, the city and environmental health fill the tanks with a concrete slurry instead of attempting to remove them from their location. The two tanks (Tanks#1 and #2) are still under the sidewalk under the entrance way to the parking lot North of the Cancun Restaurant. • In the same area, (the Cancun Parking Lot entrance) in July of 2001 at approximately 10 to 15 feet West of Tanks#1 and #2, at the time the restaurant was developing the parking lot, Tank#3 was uncovered on the property owned by St John's Church. After properly cleaning the tank and disposing of any residual liquid in and around the tank, Jim Thorpe Oil Co., removed the tank and disposed of it on July 30, 2001. Again, this action should be shown in San Joaquin Environmental Health's records. The tank was transported to a disposal site. The hole was backfilled and compacted all under the auspices and clearance by San Joaquin Environmental Health. • The more specific location of the Tanks#1, #2 and#3 is within the entrance to the Cancun Restaurant's parking lot that is immediately north of the Restaurant building and is approximately 160 feet North of East Miner Avenue. The finding, excavation of and disposition of the three tanks was completed in the year 2001. These tanks, either Tank#1 or#2 or#3 are the tanks you refer to in your letter and as noted above, they have been dealt with properly and in compliance with Environmental Health who, we understood, had obtained approval from the State Water Resources Control Board. • The tank, to which our recent request for acceptance into the States Cleanup Fund is hereby referred to as Tank#4. Its location is at the Southeast corner of the City block that borders East Miner Avenue and North Hunter Street. Its specific location was within 10 feet north of East Miner Ave, in the Hunter Street sidewalk within 5 feet of the Cancun Restaurant Building itself. • This tank was discovered by another contractor who was under contract by Level 3 Fibre Optics Company and whose intent was to connect additional fiber optic lines to the previously installed under sidewalk lines. Their discovery was in October 2007 and they