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Brusca File No. 137-002 Page 3 December 14, 2018 Murphy Parkway Property Waste Materials Management Verification Report 2.2 Historical Site Activities The 48-acre subject parcel historically was vacant farmland. In the early 1960s, a large glass manufacturing facility (currently referred to as former Pilkington North America [PNA] facility) was constructed directly northerly of the subject property. The subject 48-acre parcel (identified by APN 198-120-09) was associated with the former PNA facility, and, along with other offsite areas, was used for solid waste handling and waste water disposal related to the PNA facility. Solid wastes comprised largely of waste glass materials were handled within the northwesterly portion of the subject 48-acre site; in general, this area reportedly was used as a storage area for waste glass materials prior to off haul to offsite disposal locations. Glass manufacturing activities at the former PNA facility were discontinued several years ago. In recent years, the subject 48- acre parcel generally has been unused, except for some livestock grazing. Earthwork construction for the current development was initiated in June 2018. Treated industrial and domestic waste water, as well as storm water, generated at the former PNA facility northerly of the subject property was disposed at that facility, and also on the subject 48- acre parcel via spray irrigation. The waste water discharge was performed under permit with the CVRWQCB. Because the subject 48-acre property is no longer intended for waste water discharge, the CVRWQCB is currently in the process of removing this area from the waste water discharge permit. 2.3 Past Onsite Waste Investigations and Remedial Work It is indicated that the handling of glass wastes on the subject property ceased in the 1980s. Around 2012, the local oversight agency (the SJCEHD) required the placement of a clean soil cap over the northwesterly portion of the property (WU1 area) where a thin layer of residual glass wastes was known to exist at the site surface. A Soil Cover Workplan was prepared in early 2013, and the capping work was implemented in late 2013.4 The area of the cap (WU1 area) is shown on Plate 2. Starting in 2014, a substantial amount of investigation, waste characterization, and waste removal work was implemented on the subject parcel by AGE with direction and oversight by the SJCEHD. This work included: • a significant number of explorations (test pits and borings) within the capped area and other site areas, including areas to the south and east of the capped area. • a geophysical survey (involving ground penetrating radar and a magnetometer survey) on the westerly portion of the property to identify any unknown areas of disturbed materials/buried wastes. The geophysical and trenching work reportedly identified two areas (approximate 2,000 square feet each in plan area) of deeper disturbed materials/wastes along the far westerly margin of the property and outside of the cap area. These areas were identified as the South Waste Cell (SWC) and the North Waste Cell (NWC). SWC and NWC waste materials subsequently were excavated and removed from the subject parcel to below screening levels and were hauled from the property for offsite 4 Antea Group; “Soil Cover Workplan, Former Cullet Staging Area, Pilkington North America, Inc., 500 East Louise Avenue, Lathrop, California”; May 22, 2013.