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Page 1 of 3 • Margaret Lagorio [EH] From: Margaret Lagorio [EH] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 4:36 PM To: 'Gil Moore'; 'Tom Landwehr';'Spencer Malysiak; 'Marta Garcia' Cc: jennifer@apexenvirotech.com;jbarton@waterboards.ca.gov; Mike Infurna [EH] Subject: RE: New West report Mr. Moore, The meeting is scheduled for March 30, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in our office, in Room 307, on the 3rd Floor of 304 E. Weber Avenue, Stockton. Actually,the last meeting was held on November 9, 2005, and the meeting was at the request of Apex(E-mail attached). I'm sorry I was not able to be at that meeting, I was ill with a fever etc. and certainly didn't know that wouldhappen when the meeting was agreed to. Mike was at your site inspecting the installation of monitoring wells. We both plan to be at the meeting this Thursday and Jim Barton plans to be there also. I checked with the UST compliance staff in our office and apparently the vapor recovery bucket on the gasoline UST system failed on January 18, 2006. 1 also was informed that UST systems installed prior to July 1, 2003,were not required to have secondary containment on the vapor lines so the vapor lines on the UST systems at your site are single walled and not monitored. As I told you on the telephone after overseeing corrective action at hundreds of sites, the highest concentrations of contamination are always in the source area as we see at your site. We can discuss this at the meeting. Margaret From: Gil Moore [mailto:gilmoore@newwestpetroleum.com] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:41 PM To: Margaret Lagorio [EH]; Tom Landwehr'; 'Spencer Malysiak'; 'Marta Garcia' Cc: jennifer@apexenvirotech.com; jbarton@waterboards.ca.gov; Mike Infurna [EH] Subject: RE: New West report Margaret: Thank you for your response to our phone conversation this morning. I talked with Tom Landwehr, of Apex, and he has expressed concerns regarding the direction of the do's and don'ts from EHD and the CVRWQCB. Tom also expressed concerns that the EHD may be pressing for closure of the Chevron location next door to me. You have mentioned several times to me that I am the responsible party for the clean up of the MTBE in the groundwater by my facility, yet I passed the tracer test. I conferred with Mike Walton of Walton Engineering who coordinated the said test, and has maintained this station, as well as, built the fuel facility at Flag City, and he does not see how it is possible that my station could be responsible for this magnitude of contamination without any obvious leaks or spills or anything else that would cause us to become "the responsible party". Yet, as I mentioned over the phone, I will always be responsible and will take full responsibility for my actions and my personal and real property. You all requested a meeting last October, 2005,yet the main people involved, Mike Infurna, and Margaret Lagorio did not show up. I did. I am requesting that the meeting that you scheduled for Thursday continue. However with one stipulation, this meeting will continue only if you Margaret, and Mike Infurna, and the rest of the folks show up. I have forwarded this email to Spencer Malysiak, my attorney so that he may become familiar with the discrepancies and irregularities of this subject. I do not think that Spencer needs to be at this meeting Thursday. Thursday's meeting should be a friendly,fact finding mission to discuss all issues and to protect the groundwater and limit any contamination to the soil,water, or air. As for requesting who becomes the lead agency, let's talk it through on Thursday. Please let me know the 3/27/2006