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JUN, 17 '96 12: 19 FROM TO 912094693433 PAGE .002i005 <br /> • • <br /> LINCOLN CENTER FACT SHEET <br /> STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA <br /> i <br /> FACT SHEET <br /> i <br /> • <br /> . I JUNE 19K <br /> INTRODUCTION <br /> . aaq <br /> This fact sheet provides background information and a status y i <br /> update on environmental investigations at Lincoln Center in <br /> Stockton,California(Figure 1).A draft Work Plan for - <br /> environmental investigation has been prepared.It describes a - <br /> program to investigate and clean up detected hazardous <br /> substance contamination in soil and groundwater that is <br /> associated with historical dry cleaning operations at Lincoln <br /> Center. <br /> t <br /> a <br /> Tetrachloroetbene(PCE),a chemical commonly used in dry <br /> cleaning,and its degradation products,trichloroethene - + r urtbtx CENIZR <br /> r <br /> (TCE)and 1,2-dichloroethene(1,2-DCE),have been <br /> detected in soils beneath buildings and paved areas at <br /> Lincoln Center.These soils are inaccessible to Lincoln 1 <br /> Center merchants and the public.Dry clearring contamina. _ <br /> tion has also been detected in groundwater beneath Lincoln <br /> Cents.Municipal groundwater supply wells currently in j m p'" r <br /> use in the area have not been affected by such contamination. <br /> 'Rte draft Work Plan is available for public comment from 3 i <br /> June 3 through July 5, 1996,at the Margaret Troke Branch <br /> of the Stockton Public library(502 Benjamin Holt Drive, ' <br /> Stockton,California)and at the Stockton Main Library(605 <br /> North El Dorado,Stockton,California).A public meeting to <br /> discuss and receive comments on the draft Work Plan is - <br /> scheduled for Wednesday.June 19, 19%,from 6:30 p.m.to <br /> 7:30 p.m.at Zion Lutheran Church Social Hall,808 Porter <br /> Avenue in Stockton. <br /> SITE BACKGROUND <br /> Since the late 1950s,several dry cleaning businesses have operators of the three dry cleaning facilities(the Settling Dry <br /> operated at Lincoln Center at various times from three Cleaning Defendants or"SDCDs")to investigate and clean <br /> different storefronts.Past dry cleaning waste-handling up the dry cleaning contamination.(Lincoln Properties,Ltd. <br /> practices included the customary and standard disposal of v.Norman Higgins,et at.,Case No.CIV-S-91-760 DFL <br /> waste-water containing dissolved dry cleaning fluids into the [GGH] [E.D.Cal.] [Levi,J.])As a result of that litigation, <br /> sanitary sewer lines connected to each of the facilities.(Such the United States District Court,Eastern District of Califor- <br /> waste-disposal practices are no longer employed at the two nia('the Court")ordered the SDCDs to investigate and <br /> dry cleaning facilities currently operating at Lincoln Center.) clean up the contamination under the direction of LPL and <br /> Spills of dry cleaning fluids also occurred historically within the Regional Water Quality Control Board,Central <br /> each of the facilities.These historical waste-disposal Valley Region(RWQCB)-To comply with the Court's <br /> Practices and spills resulted in the contamination of soil and orders,Levine-Fricke,Inc.("Levine-Fricke'),the Site <br /> groundwater beneath Lincoln Center. Project Manager designated by the SDCDs,has prepared a <br /> In 1991,Lincoln Properties,Ltd.(LPL),the owner and draft Work Plan to perform the investigation. <br /> manager of portions of Lincoln Center,sued the owners and <br /> Words shown m boldface type in this fact sheet are&dined is rhe glossary at the end. <br /> A <br />