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Los Ranchos County Estates 15 August 1984 Page 3 5. The geological formation is idealy suited for the entrapment of water near the ground surface with continuity between sucessive layers of clay and sand. This can be noted from well drilling reports. This formation also is suitable for transporting water laterally with very little head differential. There are several up gradient water sources in the vacinity of Santo Rancho. In addition at least two notices of noncomplience with quality standards have been issued to Lammersville School and Currier Estates Water Co. by the San Joaquin Health District. Exhibits Dl and D2. Based on the above, I believe there is reasonable evidence that conditions at Santos Rancho pose a sewer hazard to the health and safty of people living in portions of the Santos Rancho Development and that conditions will be come worse as additional buildout of the development occurs. It is my recommendation that those responsible parties should, as a very high priority, provide further investigation to establish the true existing conditions of the ground water supply, sewage treatment and disposal reliability and the degradation of ground water by draining storm water to the ground water aquifers. Currently large amounts of storm water is pooled & puddled in back and side yards — the homes of large domestic animals. In addition, preliminary plans and rough cost estimates should be developed along with a financial plan for implimenting any further improvements that are deemed necessary or desirable. This planning work could be funded by a grant from the State Water Resources Control Board, under section 205 (j) of the Federal Clean Water Act. Grant funding of 75% of the planning cost is available and does require 25'X, local funding participation. Our firm estimates that a suitable planning study could be done for $12,000 to $16,000 (for tentative outline of such a proposed investigaiton please see Exhibit E). The current years primary emphasis is for ground water problems such as maybe occuring at Santos Ranch. Important applications for this year's Section 205 (j) grants must be submitted by 5:00 p.m., Monday, 20 August 1984. That deadline can be met.