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v <br /> Advanced <br /> GeoEnvironmentaljac. <br /> 24 December 1998 <br /> Ms. Lori Duncan <br /> San Joaquin County PHS-EHD <br /> P. O. Box 388 <br /> Stockton, CA 95201 <br /> Subject: Improper Notification for Advancing and Backfilling a Soil Boring <br /> CALIFORNIA NATURAL PRODUCTS (AP#s 198-10-18 and 198-09-17) <br /> 2020 E. Park and 2440 E. Louise Avenue, Lathrop, California <br /> Dear Ms. Duncan: <br /> It has come to the attention of upper management of Advanced GeoEnvironmetal, Inc. (AGE)that <br /> proper notification to you was not made for a hand auger soil boring advanced on the above noted <br /> property on 25 August 1998,thereby effectively denying you the opportunity to inspect the grouting <br /> of the soil boring during the course of the work. Your concerns regarding this incident expressed in <br /> a phone call on 22 December 1998 to Bill Little and during a return phone call to you on 23 <br /> December from Bob Marty are well founded and has caused an internal review of the matter at AGE. <br /> From our review, AGE notes the following: <br /> • Tight time constraints are not sufficient reason to fail to give you proper notification of field <br /> activities where your oversight are proper and mandated by county regulations. <br /> • While tight scheduling or an emergency need for sample information may prevent you from <br /> being present at all work site--at ail times,it is your pmrot ative to detennine which activities <br /> have priority for your oversight, and it is not the place of AGE personnel to make that <br /> decision for you. AGE apologizes for any presumptiveness that may have been involved in <br /> this incident. <br /> • While your oversight for sample validation was not necessary in this particular case, your <br /> oversight of the grouting of the soil boring was desirable and necessary to comply with <br /> county regulations and to provide additional assurance to our client that the boring was <br /> properly abandoned. To that end, proper abandonment of the boring should have been <br /> scheduled with you. At your convenience,the project manager involved in this activity will <br /> be happy to meet you at the site and discuss the abandonment procedures utilized. <br /> AGE regards this incident as a serious breach of proper and standard operating procedures and will <br /> take the following steps to ensure that there are no repetitions of it: <br /> 4005 North Wilson Way, Stockton, California 95205 <br /> Telephone (209) 467-1006 FAX (209)467-1118 <br />