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First Quarter 2001 Ground Water Monitonng Report ort Cleanu and Abatement Order No 5-00-707 EAI Pro ect No I232 1.0 INTRODUCTION ' This document constitutes the First Quarter (January through March) 2001 ground water monitoring report for the Montgomery Ward, LLC (Wards) site located at 5400 Pacific Avenue and the former Unocal Oil Company of California (Unocal) site located at 5606 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, California Ground water monitoring was conducted pursuant to requirements of Cleanup and Abatement Order (CAO) No 5-00-707, issued to Wards, Unocal, ' Surry California Limited Partnership, and Stone Brothers and Associated General Partnership on September 8, 2000, by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region (RWQCB) (see Section 1 1 4) Environmental Audit, Inc (EAI) was retained by Wards ' and Unocal to complete joint ground water monitoring for both sites 11 Background ' 1 1 1 Wards Site ' Wards formerly operated an auto service center at 5400 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, California (see Figure 1) Between 1986 and 1988, Wards removed one waste oil UST, four bulk oil USTs, and two gasoline USTs from the site Numerous investigations of the Wards site were ' conducted and a remedial system (air sparging coupled with vapor extraction) was installed to address the remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons present in soil and ground water beneath the Wards site The remedial system was put into full operation in November 1999, and was in operation until December 2000 when the auto service center and remedial system were shut down due to Wards filing bankruptcy During its operation, the Wards remedial system removed approximately 8,000 pounds of hydrocarbons Ground water monitoring at the Wards site has been conducted since 1993 Ground water monitoring activities for the Wards site and the Unocal site, for the most part, were coordinated by the various consultants representing the two entities and conducted simultaneously Table I summarizes the historical ground water testing results for the Wards site 1 12 Unocal Site The property Iocated at 5606 Pacific Avenue contained a gasoline station between approximately 1955 and 1985 (see Figure 1) In 1985, the station was closed and the USTs removed After completing investigations of the site, Unocal in 1988 excavated approximately 6,000 cubic yards of soil from the site The excavated soil was aerated, and based on the analytical testing results associated with the aerated soil, 5,800 cubic yards of the aerated soil was reused on-site as fill, and 200 cubic yards transported off-site for disposal On August 25, 1989, the RWQCB issued a letter for the Unocal site confirming that the soil contamination at Q the site has been adequately cleaned up, but, that the extent of ground water impact has yet to ■ be defined 6HM 1232RO131 1 ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT, INC