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' Site Background Information <br /> • CHEROKEE TRUCK STOP <br />' 3535 East Cherokee Road, Stockton, California <br />' The site is located approximately 300 feet northeast of the intersection of Cherokee and Newton <br /> Road, in the eastern portion of Stockton, California (Figure 1) The site is located in the northeast <br /> quarter of Section 53,Township 2 North,Range 7 East,Mount Diablo Base and Meridian(Stockton <br />' West Quadrangle, 7 5-Minute USGS Topographic Series, 1968, photo revised 1987) <br /> IREGIONAL GEOLOGIC/HYDROGEOLOGIC SETTING <br />' The Geologic Map of California, published in 1966 by the California Department of Conservation <br /> Division of Mines and Geology,shows the site area within the Great Valley Syncline(GVS),a large, <br /> elongate, northwest trending structural trough The GVS is subdivided into two major divisions <br />' designated the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys,which have been filled to the present elevation <br /> with thick sequences of sediment ranging in age from Jurassic to present day, creating a nearly <br /> flat-lying alluvial plain extending from the Tehachapi Mountains in the south to the Klamath <br />' Mountains in the north The western and eastern boundaries of this province are comprised of the <br /> California Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada, respectively <br />' . Based on General Soil Map from the San Joaquin County Soil Survey, published by the United <br /> States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service in 1992, the site area is within the <br /> Guard-Devnes-Rioblancho (GDR)association The GDR soils are located within basin rims along <br />' the eastern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta area,and generally consist of poorly drained, <br /> fine to coarse textured soils The GDR soils generally formed in alluvium from mixed rock sources <br />' The Modesto,Riverbank,Turlock Lake Formations and overlying recent alluvium are the principal <br /> source of domestic ground water in the 13,500-square mile San Joaquin Valley Ground Water Basin <br /> (Basin 5-22) This basin is drained primarily by the San Joaquin River The nearest surface water <br />' feature in the vicinity of the property is Stockton Diverting Canal, located approximately 2,500 feet <br /> southwest of the site <br />' Ground water in the area of the Cherokee Truck Stop site is considered to be of beneficial use <br /> 1 UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK REMOVAL <br /> Three 500-gallon waste oil tanks were removed from the site prior to 1990 Details of the waste oil <br />' UST removals were not available to AGE <br />' Unauthorized releases of hydrocarbons were reported from fuel piping at the site on three occasions <br /> in 1988 and 1989 The EHD subsequently required investigation of the extent of impacted soil and <br /> . ground water <br /> IAdvanced GeoEnvironmental,inc <br /> I <br />