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valve, going to Richmond, is 6 miles north of the damaged section of pipe. He stated that the pipeline was buried under approximately 4 feet of soil. The specific gravity of this crude 13.5. This is a heated pipeline. I asked him if he was monitoring the breathing zone because the crude smells like sulfur and I was concerned with the possibility of other volatiles which might not have such an apparent odor. He said he was monitoring the air with a couple of LEL meters and that there is an MSDS sheet on file with the County in the business plan. 10:501 was paged by 952-3573 (911) when I called the person that answered the phone said that no one had paged me from that law office. My estimate of the amount of material is (length of spill 1000 feet) x (size of contaminant stream in drainage ditch 1/2 foot x 1/2 foot) = 250 square feet. 12:15 left site 1:15 returned to site The vacuum trucks had arrived while I was at lunch. I walked down to the secondary impoundment. The drivers had placed the vacuum hoses in the secondary impoundment. There were three trucks with a combined capacity of 10,000 gallons. The trucks are owned by KVS Transportation, Inc. out of Bakersfield California. The Bakersfield phone number is (800) 589- 5220 and the Coalinga phone number is (209) 935-5005. The truck drivers did not know where they were going to discharge the crude oil. They suggested that they may haul it back to Coalinga to the refinery there. They had not yet begun the removal. When I returned to the primary impoundment I met Linda Pappas of the Office of the State Fire Marshall. We started discussing the incident. We were trying to determine who was responsible for locating the pipeline and the drill rig. While we were talking Gary Hohnstein, the district manager for Texaco said "I couldn't help but overhear what you guys are talking about". Gary then explained to us how a pipeline is located. Gary walked us to the west side of the landfill. He showed us the pipeline markers. He explained how a representative from Texaco used a detector to locate the pipeline. Gary said that the detector averages signals from certain objects. The perimeter fence of the landfill is metal and is reinforced by the Cal Trans freeway fence at this location. The pipeline is only a few feet on the inside of the fence and is at least covered with four feet of soil. Due to the depth of the pipeline and the strong signal from the fence the detector averaged the signal from the pipeline and the fence which indicated the apparent location of the pipeline as a few feet north of its actual location. At this point Linda wanted to know who determined the pipeline location. Gary pointed to a gentleman, a Texaco employee, who was standing nearby. Gary asked him if he was the person who sited the pipeline. The gentleman said "yeah". The gentleman's name is John Guerrero I asked Gary how the cleanup would be conducted. He said that they will isolate this piece of pipe between the hill to the east and the hill to the west. Then they will install a valve just down from the break. They will sleeve he break. Then they will remove the crude oil from the impoundments and they will overexcavate the impoundments and the storm drain ditch.