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TO: KAREN M. PATCHE <br />DEP-ARTEMENT OF <br />OFFICE OF REAL <br />400 'IR" STREET <br />SACRAMENTO, CA <br />E <br />GENERAL SERVICES <br />ESTATE AND DESIGN <br />SUITE 5000 <br />95814 <br />E <br />AV, vo � X2-1 lef q * <br />SERVICES <br />FROM: JOHN FUKUMOTO, SR. CIVIL ENGINEER <br />CITY HALL ROOM 317 <br />STOCKTON, ca 95207 <br />SUBJECT: AGRICULTURAL WELL LOCATED ON EAST SIDE OF CALIFORNIA YO= <br />CENTER <br />This memo is to inform you that Mr. Jerry Noma, Plant Operations <br />Manager, Northern California Youth Center, and I visited the well <br />site where the groundwater sample was taken by Clark Well Drilling <br />Co. <br />This abandoned well site is without electrical service and pump. <br />Mr. Noma and I noticed that a metal "farm disc" weighted down with <br />a 10 nound concrete block covered the 1611 diameter well casing <br />where possibly a curious adjoining farmer's child could fall into - <br />I strongly suggest a padlocked hinged steel lid be <br />placed over this illegal abandoned well site, by San <br />Joaquin County'Realth. Standards. <br />Many years ago as a farm boy, I recall all the older irrigation <br />pumps were lubricated using a manually operated petroleum <br />reservoir, approximately I quart in size, to lubicate the pump and <br />bearings which in turn dripped into the water. If you forgot to <br />turn the valve off, the oil contents would drain completely out. <br />Question: would the petroleum lubricant used over many, many years <br />be the cause of groundwater contamination at this site? <br />Petroleum product being lighter than water would never be pumped <br />out completely if adequate water supply was available for <br />irrigation. <br />cc: Jerry Noma, California Youth Center <br />