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California Regi onal Water Quality Control Board E4 Central Valley Region Robert Schneider,Chair Terry Tamminen Arnold Schwanenegger Secretary for Sacramento Main Office Governor Environmental Internet Address: http://w .swrcb.ca.gov/mgcb5 Protection 11020 Sun Center Drive#200 Rancho Cordova,CA 95670-6114 Phone(916)464-3291 27 July 2004 CERTIFIED MAIL 7003 05,j 7907 8044 Mr. James Fisk ° 1111 J&L MarketJU �D�eo 8125 El Dorado Street 4 2 French Camp, CA 95231 FNV/R� 9 ?004 PERM T*F V 6F4t Ty ORDER TO SUBMIT TECHNICAL REPORTS INACCORDANCE WITHSECT iO 267 OF THE CALIFORNIA WATER CODE, J&L MARKET, FRENCH CAMP, SANJOAQUIN COUNTY hi 1995, following the removal of one 2,000-gallon and two 10,000-gallon underground storage tanks, approximately 3,777 cubic yards of contaminated soil were excavated and removed. Three monitoring wells were installed in November 2001. The most recent 2004 quarterly groundwater monitoring data shows that all three monitoring wells are impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons,with maximum concentrations reported as: total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) as gasoline (990 µg/L), TPH as diesel (360 µg/L), Benzene (55 µg/L), Methyl tert-Butyl Ether(50 µg/L), t-Butyl Alcohol (46 µg/L), and 1,2-dichlorethane (1,2-DCA, 55 µg/L). In our letter dated 10 October 2003, we requested that you complete a groundwater investigation to fully delineate the lateral and vertical extent of groundwater contamination. In our letter dated 29 December 2003, we approved your 25 November 2003 Workplan for Further Groundwater Investigation (Workplan). We issued a Non-Compliance letter on 13 May 2004 for failure to implement the Workplan. The work still has not been done. Because you have not completed the additional groundwater investigation, we are unable to determine if residual hydrocarbons from your site have migrated and threaten nearby domestic wells. Although in August 2002, we concurred with your 24 July 2002 Second Quarter 2002 Report proposal for the testing and destruction of the contaminated onsite supply well (OSW), the OSW destruction work has not been done. Because you have not abandoned the OSW, there is a threat of pollution to nearby domestic wells. Therefore, you are to complete the additional groundwater investigation approved by us in December 2003 and the OSW abandonment, and, as prescribed under Section 13267 of the California Water Code (CWC), you are ordered to provide a Report of these activities by 15 September 2004. Electronic copies of the Report shall be submitted at that time to the State Water Resources Control Board(SWRCB) GeoTracker Web site at hU://geotracker.swrcb.ca.gov and click on the"Electronic Submittal of Information"button. If the investigation does not delineate the vertical and lateral extent of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination at your site, the Report shall include a Work Plan for additional groundwater investigation. All work to complete the Report and all fixture reports must be performed according to the Tri-Regional Recommendations for Preliminary Investigation and Evaluation of Underground Storage Tank Sites and Appendix A. Appendix A is found under"available documents"on our Internet page at the web address in the letterhead. All paper copies of the Report and all future reports must be submitted to the San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department California Environmental Protection Agency Q?Recycled Paper