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San Joaquin County <br /> Environmental Health Department DIRECTOR <br /> ?' =�� '•9 Donna Heran, REHS <br /> 600 East Main Street <br /> Stockton, California 95202-3029 PROGRAM COORDINATORS <br /> Robert McClellon,REHS <br /> �. <br /> Jeff Carruesco, REHS, RDI <br /> Website: www.sjgov.org/ehd Kasey Foley, REHS <br /> i F o R Linda Turkatte, REHS <br /> Phone: (209) 468-3420 <br /> Fax: (209) 464-0138 <br /> March 23, 2012 <br /> Mr. Ellis Cecchini <br /> Cecchini Cecchini & Giovannoni <br /> 3000 E. 18th Street <br /> Antioch, CA 94509 <br /> Subject: Cherokee Truck (former) CUF#: 8109 <br /> 3535 E. Cherokee Road RO#: 0118 <br /> Stockton, CA 95205 <br /> Dear Mr. Cecchini, <br /> The San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department (EHD) is in receipt of your letter <br /> dated 02 March 2012, in which you describe a recent telephone conversation, your concerns <br /> regarding completing the corrective .action on your site, and your request that your case be <br /> assigned to another caseworker. <br /> In view of your concerns and request, your case has been assigned to me for future oversight. <br /> You may call, email, or write to me at anytime with questions, concerns.or requests related to <br /> your case. Let me assure you that the EHD is not, and has not been planning any enforcement <br /> action regarding this site at this time. The interest of the EHD is to move your site toward <br /> closure in an expeditious manner. <br /> In 2010 and 2011, the Five-Year Review Committee (FYRC) of the State Water Resources <br /> Control Board Cleanup Fund (CUF) recommended that the EHD .review your site for closure. <br /> Despite the EHD responses to the FYRC that it would be prudent to remediate the secondary <br /> source of contaminants to the extent practicable, to date the FYRC has not changed its <br /> recommendation. A recommendation by the FYRC for site closure (which the FYRC commonly <br /> phrases as a recommendation to review or consider site closure) has real consequences. Once <br /> a closure recommendation has been made, the CUF limits its allocation to a site to $10,000, <br /> which can be utilized only for closure-related costs, not costs related to additional corrective <br /> action. This policy has recently been put into law. If closure costs exceed $10,000, the CUF can <br /> increase the reimbursable costs beyond the $10,000. <br /> In view of the potentially severe impact an FYRC closure recommendation can have on a <br /> responsible party who conducts additional corrective action after the FYRC recommendation <br /> has been made, the EHD is very reluctant to direct or approve additional corrective action. As <br /> the CUF is the superior agency and the FYRC staff is comprised of competent professionals, <br /> the EHD must carefully weigh their professional opinions. Therefore, despite the EHD's opinion <br /> that some benefit could be derived by remediating the secondary source to the extent <br /> practicable, the EHD directed submittal of a case closure report. <br /> Change of Caseworker Letter 0312 <br />