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g y—Jul 14-15,2006, 7500 West Eleventh Street, Tracy,CA. Page 5 Report:Groundwater-quality Monitorin form semi-continuous permeable strata within the less permeable clayey material. In the neighborhood of the 7500 West Eleventh Street site it is estimated that these alluvial materials are some 100 ft. thick. The stratigraphy described above is typical of the alluvial fan upon which Tracy and the surrounding area are situated. Beneath the alluvial sediments are the poorly sorted clays, silts sands and gravels of the Tulare Formation that were primarily derived from the Inner Coast Range hills that rise along the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. The Tulare Formation is separated into two members, the Upper Tulare Formation and the Lower Tulare Formation. Both members of the Formation are, on the regional scale, moderately to highly permeable and yield moderate to large quantities of water to wells. The Upper Tulare Formation is separated from the Lower Tulare Formation by the low-permeability, lacustrine Corcoran Clay, which acts as a confining bed within the regional groundwater basin. At the subject site, the top of the Corcoran Clay is estimated to be at a depth of approximately 230 ft, beneath the ground surface and to be some 100 ft. thick. The total thickness of the underlying Lower Tulare Formation is not well documented; however, estimates suggest that it ranges in thickness from 300 ft. to greater than 1,400 ft. Figures 4-9 are hydrostratigraphic longitudinal and cross-sections drawn along section lines A-A' through F-F', the locations of which are shown on Figure 2. To reduce the complexity of the stratigraphy of the Navarra Site so that it is tractable to practical interpretation, the sections shown on Figures 4-9 were developed by dividing the sediments into general classes based on their hydraulic conductivity and cation exchange ( capacity, which are the soil characteristics of primary relevance to contaminant transport analysis. In the cross-sections, the permeable gravels, sands and silts have been segregated from the relatively less permeable clays and silty clays. The depth to the natural groundwater table beneath the site varies seasonally between 7 and 11 ft. Regionally, the gencral direction of groundwater flow is to the north toward the Old River anastomosic branch of the San Joaquin River, the closest tributary of which, the Tom Paine Slough, is one and one-quarter miles north of the Navarra Site. However, locally, the shallow groundwater gradient tends to follow the topography, which, at the subject property, slopes gently to the north-northeast. The local direction of groundwater flow is also affected by the local sedimentary geology, particularly where continuous or semi-continuous sand or gravel strata provide channels for subsurface flow through less permeable facies. Based on pump tests that SJC conducted in similar strata at another location in Tracy, and from the observed rate of migration of methyl tertiary butyl ether {MTBE} through the subsurface at the Navarra Site, it is estimated that the sands beneath the site have a mean horizontal hydraulic conductivity of approximately 1.5 to 10.2 cm/sec (The San Joaquin Company Inc. 2002). The vertical permeability of the clay strata that separate the several aquifers present at depths in the range from ground surface to 50 ft. BGS was assessed by a constant-head permeability test that was conducted on a sample of clayey soil recovered in April 2004 from a depth of 7.5 ft BGS. The vertical permeability of that sample was found to be 10.8 x 10-7 cm/sec. sic