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k f Findings- Soil Profile Although there are four wells located on the property, there are no driller's or geologist's logs for these borings. Three of these wells are drilled wells and are reputed to be approximately 200 feet deep. Two are reported to be 12 to 14 inches in diameter and the third, four to six inches. The fourth well is hand dug and of unknown depth. The most distinctive and consistent feature of the soil profile at the site is the presence of a resistant hardpan layer near the surface of the ground. This unit was encountered in all three borings and is well exposed along the wall of a drainage canal which runs along the eastern boundary of the site. The hardpan layer ranges from 1.5 to 3.5 feet in thickness and is composed of calcite-cemented sand and silt. This layer is generally at or near the surface of the ground, but was encountered at a depth of three feet in boring TV-1. Boring TV-1, located at the irrigation pond site, was drilled to a depth of 35.8 i feet. The soil section in TV-1 was dominated by silt and clayey silt with six inch to one foot-thick lenses of moderately well-sorted sand. Samples collected from the bottom of the boring contained 26% clay and had a hydraulic conductivity of 4.2-6 cm/sec. Boring TV-2, located at the flush lagoon site, was completed at a depth of 51.0 feet below the ground surface. In TV-2 the soil profile consisted primarily of clay and silt. A silt layer was encountered from 38 to 44 feet, grading into a loose sand layer down to approximately 48 feet. At the bottom of the hole, a good clay layer was encountered. This clay was composed of 50% clay-sized particles and had a hydraulic conductivity of 9.9-8 cm/sec. Boring TV-3, located at the site of the settling ponds, penetrated to a depth of 31.0 feet. In TV-3 the soil was composed of sandy and silty sediments down to a depth of approximately 28 feet. Below this depth a sandy clay was encountered that was composed of 22 percent clay. The hydraulic conductivity of this unit was 1.2-6 cm/sec. The locations of the borings can be referenced at appendix V A. A tabulation of soil textures and hydraulic conductivity's determined for the samples collected from the three boring at the teVelde site are reported in Table 1., page 26. 25 I