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Mr Michael Walton • • <br /> Walton Engineering <br /> March 20, 1998 <br /> . The approximate 2,000 square-foot convenience store and sales office was located near the eastern <br /> edge of the property (Figure 2) The surface of the site was covered predominantly with asphaltic- <br /> concrete and concrete with a subordinate area of exposed soil in landscaped planters along the <br /> northern boundary of the site <br /> The former underground storage tank used to store mid-grade unleaded gasoline, apparently was <br /> once used to store diesel fuel (T1 on Figure 2) An abandoned underground product delivery <br /> pipeline, which may have supplied diesel fuel to dispenser islands that Once existed parallel to <br /> Alpine Avenue was buried beneath the asphaltic concrete along the western side of the site building <br /> TANK REMOVAL <br /> The fuel dispenser pipelines and underground storage tanks were removed by Walton Engineering, <br /> Inc , on November 21, 1997 Prior to removing the tanks from the ground, the tanks were rinsed and <br /> emptied by Ramos Environmental of West Sacramento California Approximately 250 pounds of <br /> dry ice was placed in each of the 8,000-gallon storage tanks and approximately 300 pounds of dry <br /> ice was placed in the 10,000-gallon storage tank The dry ice displaced oxygen (O,) to less than 8% <br /> in each of the tanks, while lowering the lower explosive limit(LEL) to less than 10% in each of the <br /> tanks After removing the storage tanks from the ground the tanks were inspected and found to be <br /> in fair condition The three tanks were hauled from the site by West Coast Equipment of Turlock, <br /> California and disposed of at Cal Coast Manufacturing, Inc , of Turlock, California Representatives <br /> from San Joaquin County Environmental Health Division (SJCEHD) and City of Stockton Fire <br /> . Department were present to supervise the tank removal and soil sampling operation <br /> Soil Sample Collection <br /> Native soil strata encountered in the tank excavation at the site consisted of interbedded, light brown <br /> and gray sandy silts and silts with clay Field evidence for subsurface soil contamination was <br /> observed in tank backfill sand and in native soil mainly beneath the north end of the former mid- <br /> CY <br /> ;rade unleaded gasoline storage tank (T1 on Figure 2) Native soil encountered beneath the north <br /> end of storage tank TI had a moderate odor of petroleum-based fuel hydrocarbons and appeared <br /> moderately discolored Groundwater was not encountered in the open excavation during the tank <br /> removal work <br /> After removing sandy tank backfill material from the open excavation, soil samples were collected <br /> from beneath each end of the three former underground fuel storage tanks (Figure 2) Native soil <br /> samples were collected from beneath each of the tanks at various depths by removing soil from the <br /> subsurface using an excavator and then immediately driving a clean sample sleeve into a relatively <br /> undisturbed part of the soil contained in the excavator bucket Each individual soil sample was <br /> collected by driving the stainless steel sample sleeve into the native soil using a hand-operated,AMS <br /> percussion core sampler <br /> 0 <br /> GRA YLAND ENVIRONMENTAL <br /> 7 <br /> Gras lurid 022-160 trr <br />