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Soil Suitability Study MS-98-37 Parcel Nos . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , & 5 was constructed for the six ( 6 ) permits studied. Existing Use: Parcel Nos . 3 and 4 , forty (40) acres each, are the only developed parcels . Parcel No . 3 ' s development consists of an uninhabited house , a well , two (2 ) barns and three (3) sheds . Parcel No . 3 also serves as storage area for several cable cars and several automobiles . Parcel No . 4 has an inhabited house , a well , and a shop, and a septic system situate at the southwest corner of the house . A portion of Parcel No . 4 is devoted to the grazing of horses . Parcel Nos . 1 and 5 , totaling 200 acres is devoted to the growing of grapes . Parcel No . 2 , totaling 40 acres as well as a portion of Parcel 3 is devoted to the grazing of cattle. Soil Profile Test and Percolation Test Hole Drilling : A total of seven deep percolation test holes were drilled on the subject property but I have listed only three on my "Field Percolation Data Sheets" for soil profile reporting purposes . The locations of the seven deep percolation test holes are shown on the attached "Site Pians" . The seven deep percolation test holes are identified as Test Hole Nos . DP1A, DP2A, DP3A, DP3B, DP4A, DP413 and DP5A and were drilled to maximum depths of 12 ' 06" , 17 ' 06" , 19 ' 00" , 12 ' 07" , 25 ' 00" , 22 ' 02" and 22 ' 02" , respectively. . Deep Percolation Test Hole No . DPIA is located on Parcel No . 1 . Deep Percolation Test Hole No . DP2A is located on Parcel 2 . Deep Percolation Test Hole Nos . DP3A and DP3B are located on Parcel No . 3 . Deep Percolation Test Hole Nos . DP4A and DP4B are located on Parcel No . 4 and Deep Percolation Test Hole No . DP5A is located on Parcel No . 5 . The soil encountered in all of the holes is noted to be reddish-brown in color and either silty-sand loam or clayey loam, except for the last foot of Deep Percolation Test Hole No . DP2A which is noted to be black sand which appeared very similar to the black sand that gold is found in the Mother Lode . Also the last foot in Deep Percolation Test Hole No . DP3B is noted to be gravely with some cobbles . Deep Percolation Test Hole No . DP3A was drilled to a depth of about nineteen ( 19) feet at which depth the drill rig could not penetrate the soil any deeper and there was no visual evidence of a porous layer situate anywhere in the nineteen ( 19) feet depth. Also there was no visual evidence of a porous layer in the twenty- five ( 25) feet depth drilled for Deep Percolation Test Hole No . DP4A so percolation testing on both Deep Percolation Test Hole Nos . DP3A and DP4A was aborted. Deep drilling operations were attempted on Parcel No . 2 on December 2 , 1998 but the drill rig mired down in the soil made unstable due to recent intermittent rain storms and Parcel No . 2 could not be accessed. After getting the drill rig removed from its stuck position, an attempt was made to drill a test hole on Parcel No . 3 but a malfunction in the drill rig equipment resulted in no successful drilling on Parcel No . 3 either . Deep Percolation Test Hole Nos . DP2A, DP3A and DP4A were drilled on Saturday, December 5 , 1998 in spite of the drill rig getting stuck on this day too . Deep R.E. Rose/Bear Creek Vineyards Inc . , 16750 & 16751 Clements Rd. 3