WORK PLANS - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Page 2 Cabral-McAdams Property August 29, 2006 Job No. 1828-092.02 SITE DESCRIPTION AND VICINITY CHARACTERISTICS GENERAL The subject property is located within a mixed residential and agricultural area of Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. The San Joaquin County Assessor's parcel number (APN) for the subject site is 115-230-06. The property is accessed by a private road that fronts on North Sutter Street, approximately 450 feet to the west. The subject property is bounded by the Calaveras River corridor to the north, by vacant land and an abandoned cherry orchard to the east, and by a former railroad easement and residential property to the south. The Sierra Christian Elementary School, the easterly terminus of Fargo Street, and residential property are situated adjacent to and westerly of the subject property. The majority of the site has supported orchards for more than 100 years. The property currently supports five rural residential structures, associated outbuildings, and surrounding landscaping. The property also includes a large wooden barn, two workshop/storage structures, an unoccupied former bunkhouse, and smaller structures including an abandoned pump house and an abandoned well house. The remainder of the property is planted with orchard trees (mostly walnuts). The underground fuel storage tank area is located easterly of a former bunkhouse, and southerly of the subject property's original farm residence, which is addressed as 4204 North Sutter Street. A former workshop/garage structure was located southerly of the tank area; this structure had been damaged several months ago by strong winds and has been recently removed. GEOLOGIC AND HYDROGEOLOGIC SETTING General The subject property is situated on the eastern side of the San Joaquin Valley in the Great Valley geomorphic province of California. According to the Geologic Map of California, San Francisco — San Jose Sheet, the sands, silts, and clays observed by our firm during our recent subsurface investigations on the property are identified as the lower member of the Modesto Formation. The Modesto Formation represents Pleistocene alluvial terrace deposits; the sediments composing these terraces are typically unconsolidated and slightly weathered. The Modesto Formation in the subject area overlies other Cenozoic deposits and the Cretaceous geologic formation of the Great Valley Sequence. The formations within the sequence generally dip shallowly to the west and are several thousand feet thick. The Great Valley sediments are in turn underlain by the Mesozoic metamorphic and plutonic rocks of the Sierra Nevada. Soils The surface soils encountered at the site generally consist of brown silty fine sands and sandy silts. The subsurface soil conditions encountered on the subject property are relatively uniform.