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was no evidence of solid waste disposal and the site was carefully inspected for environmental concerns originating from discolored,disturbed/subsided soils, stressed vegetation or unusual/noxious odors. None of these environmental indicators were present. There are no hazardous materials stored on-site and there was no indication or observations of spills, drums or other items associated with hazardous materials. An important concern associated with the environmental assessment of agricultural properties is the issue of buried pesticide containers or discarded items. It was an occasional practice to dispose of containers by this method many years ago. To detect these types of underground artifacts is difficult even with the use of ground penetrating radar or other types of non-intrusive, subsurface analyses. The land surface did not exhibit visual indicators for buried containers such as surfacing of product residue, soil mounding or soil depressions, particularly in the Remainder area that is currently planted in beans. It is usually only after a contaminant plume has impacted a domestic well that pesticide containers are discovered. The groundwater table is located approximately 8 tol4 feet under the property. This is considered a very shallow groundwater elevation. Shallow, or high a groundwater table can be impacted easier from pesticides or nitrogen in the form of nitrates. The groundwater directional flow appears to be directly toward the north and then continues northeast as depicted on the attached Lines of Equal Elevation Map, published by the County Flood Control Department in 1992. As illustrated on the attached USDA Soil map, the predominate soil type over the property is Stomar clay loam (252). This soil type would be conducive to greater biological activity which would promote the degradation of organic molecules such as insecticides and herbicides. Additionally, a finer soil type such as a clay loam may promote denitrification and attenuate the downward migration of nitrate. Since the subject property has been in agricultural production for several years, an evaluation of environmental fate data for agrichemical residues as a nonpoint source of potential contamination was performed. The science of pesticide residues in soil, air, surface water and groundwater is extremely complex and variable. Environmental models which attempt to predict pesticide behavior and transport in the environment are beyond the scope of this investigation. It has been clearly evident over the last five decades that the risk/benefit ratio regarding pesticides has been overwhelming benefit and comparatively low risk to the United States population and the environment, as a whole. .Environmental fate data that exists only for those pesticides which were applied to the subject parcel are documented below. This list illustrates the half-lives of the pesticides that are listed, are comparatively fast. Data was obtained from the Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental_Fate for Organic Pesticide Chemicals: Page -3- Va%y Ag Research