SITE INFORMATION AND CORRESPONDENCE_1997

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i • • SOLVENTlust north of Benjamin holt Drive. So Car, drilling crews have found several pollution hot spots Continued from et within the boundaries of the cen- lo contain the pollution — to ter but little or no contamination keep it from spreading either ver- off site, Bradshaw said. , licafiy or horizontally before But Ire said . the polluted eventually removing it from the groundwater "is moving. That's groundwater basin why were moving aggressively to The work is being supervised find out where it is." by San Joaquin County's This summer, probably In Environmental Health Division August or September, the compa- and the Central Valley Re�Ional 11Y will begin the first interim Water Quality Control Board cleanup measures — installation "There's been quite a bit of of 18 extraction wells along padfic progress made in the last year," Avenue. The undwater Rows said Wendy Cohen, a senioreast, so the wells will be designed neer with the regional board to prevent pollution from spread- Since March,; crews have ing any farther In that direcilon. Installed 18 wells with a variety'of , A ion -term, � permanent depths to look for pollute cleanup could take years to complgroundwater both at the center "It's very complex," Rabies said. and in the surrounding neighbor- , purr Job is to make sure it's done hard, said Don Bradshaw project Our manager for the Levine-Fricke- Bradshaw said engineers haven't Recon engineering firm. yet decided how the groundwater They've conducted dozens of will be treated to remove the pol- other tests, all to try to establish lotion. how far the plume of conlami- Nor has (lie total cost of the nated groundwater has spread. cleanup been determined. Another well was installed "It will be in the millions of Thursday night In the parking lot dollars," he said.