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TECHNICAL REPORTING ORD • -2- RANCH MARKET UST SITE SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 5. In a letter dated 18 August 2000, Board staff requested that Halima Saleh-Ali and Nagi Saleh-Ali, Durhim Saleh-Ali and Mohamed and Huda Gubary prepare a Corrective Action Plan to address the contamination at the Site, and on 25 September 2000, Board staff approved a feasibility study testing work plan for soil vapor extraction (SVE) and air sparging. On 26 March 2001, the Final Ranch Market Remediation Plan was approved by Board staff. The SVE system began operation in September 2002, followed by a groundwater Ozone Sparge (injection) System startup in November 2002. After these systems were installed and operational, Board staff referred the case to SJCEHD for oversight. 6. After free product was discovered in monitoring well MW-3, SJCEHD issued a letter dated 26 February 2004 that notified Halima Saleh-Ali and Nagi Saleh-Ali, Durhim Saleh-Ali and Mohamed and Huda Gubary that it was the lead agency for the USTs case, and required free product removal from MW-3. Ozone injection was stopped in December 2004, and dual phase extraction was tested and rejected as not effective by June 2006. SVE continued until 9 June 2008 with SJCEHD approval. 7. A Multiple Interface Probe (MIP) groundwater investigation work plan was approved:by'SJCEHD on 4 September 2007, and vertical and lateral`definition of the plume by MIP was cmpleted in August 2008. However, Geocon Consultants, Inc (Geocon) which°had preparedreport detailing the results of the MIP investigation (the "MIP Report"), would not release the report because Geocon has not been paidohamed and Huda Gubary. In a letter dated 13 July 2011, SJCEHD transferred ov back to Board due'to a lack of compliance from the responsible parties. 8. Ten groundwater monitoring wells (MW-1 ough d MW-5D) and three domestic wells (DW-1 R, DW-3, and DW-4 were last monit d he ptember 2008, when maximum groundwater concent W-3) were: T , 86,000 u ; benzene,270 ug/L; toluene, 57 ug/L; ethylbenz 63 xylenes, 6,3 ug/L; 1, 2-dichlorethane, 0.7 ug/L; tert butyl alcohol, 5.2 ug/ MTBE, g/L. When t domestic wells were last monitored in November 200 , a estic results were n tect for petroleum hydrocarbons. 9. In a 19J 1 letter. t staff notified them that they were out of compl latory ti an ested a meeting to move the UST case into co nce. Bo met unit ON d at the Site on 23 August 2011. During the ing, Board site ed th ity to submit the MIP Report, but were told that the nt refused to r e the ment until they were paid in full with accrued interest. The MIP rt has still not sub ed to the Board. Subsequent to this meeting, Munir Obiad has aft d to get the harried and Huda Gubary's Fund claim assigned to him to move the case tow osure usi ,-LIF monies, but to date those efforts have been unsuccessful due to the reporte ,of a sig„'ture from the Gubary's. 10 On 31 October 2 card staff met with Geocon in an attempt to reach a resolution on the release of the MIP eport. Geocon will not release the MIP Report until it has been paid. 11. Halima Saleh-Ali and Nagi Saleh-Ali are named as Dischargers because, according to SJCEHD and San Joaquin County property records, they owned the property and operated the UST system in 1990, which is when the system failed the precision test and prior to the removal of the USTs. Durhim Saleh-Ali is named as a Discharger because, according to SJCEHD and San Joaquin County property records, he purchased the property in 1990 (recording the title on 3 January 1991) prior to the removal of the USTs in May 1991.