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' 2003 3rd Quarter Groundwater Report Frontier Transportation ' November 14, 2003 Page 1 ' 1.0) INTRODUCTION Blakely Environmental Investigations Inc (BEII) was contracted by Frontier Transportation, Inc to reportthe 2003 s0 quarter groundwater monitoring results at the ' Frontier Transport facility, 425 Larch Road, Tracy, California(See Figure 1, Site Location Map) The 2003 third quarter groundwater monitoring episode was' performed oniQctober 1, 2003 -The San Joaquin County�ealth-Ser-vrwes, Environmental Health Divas _(PH6�EHD), Carrol Oz, Senior REHS requested quarterly groundwater monitoring on September 8, 1999 ' 2.0) SITE LOCATION AND HISTORY The site is located in Tracy, California at 425 Larch Road in the northwest quarter of section 16, Township 2 South, Range 5 East, Mount Diablo Baseline at Meridian The site consists of a trucking facility with one metal frame building and all parking and work areas capped by cement and/or asphalt The site is located in an industrial park ' Six (6) underground fuel storage tanks (USTs), three diesel tanks located northeast of the terminal and three gasoline tanks located southeast of the terminal, were removed from the site on July 21, 1995 Soil sample analysis identified total petroleum hydrocarbons as gasoline (TPH-g) and total petroleum hydrocarbons as diesel (TPH-d) in the gasoline tank excavation at ' maximum concentrations of 9,800 mg/kg and 120 mg/kg, respectively Groundwater sample analysis identified dissolved phase TPH-d in the diesel excavation pit at a maximum concentration of 1,200 µg/L I--- ' In August of 1996, Twinning Laboratories, Inc (Twinning) advanced six vertical soil borings (B-1, B-2_ �3, MW-}RA, MW-IRB, and MW-2RA) and one angle boring (B-4) to V171depths between LXand 1.?;-5'"below grade (bg) to assess subsurface conditions near the ' northeastern excavation In addition, two hand augers (S-1 and S-2) were advanced to 3' bg to assess subsurface conditions beneath the dispenser and product lines and three groundwater ' monitoring wells, MW-1 through MW-3, were drilled to approximately 25' bg to assess the subsurface water beneath the site Initial subsurface water was encountered at 10 5' bg Boring B-4 located northwest of the former USTs identified maximum TPH-g, BTEX (Benzene, ' Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene), and MTBE (Methyl-tert Butyl Ether) as 1,300 mg/kg, 180 7 mg/kg, and 110 mg/kg, respectively at 10 2' bg ' Groundwater samples were collected from monitoring wells MW-1, MW-2, and MW-3 on August 30, 1996 and April 21, 1997 by Twinning Results are presented in Table 1 In January of 1998, BEII advanced four (4) groundwater monitoring wells (MW-4 f I