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1.0 INTRODUCTION USA Gasoline Corporation (USA) has retained The Park Corporation (Park) to assist them in the environmental monitoring and remediation of their retail gasoline station#65, which is located at 2500 West Lodi Avenue, Lodi, California, as shown on Figure 1 (Site Vicinity Map) Mr Snkanth Dasappa of USA has authorized Park to prepare this Quarterly Groundwater Mcnitonng Report (QMR) for the above mentioned site Prehminary investigations and ongoing monitoring and sampling activities conducted by others at the site have been under the direction of the San Joaquin County Public Health Services Environmental Health Division (County) 2.0 BACKGROUND AND SITE HISTORY 1 A brief discussion of project background and history is presented in the following section 2.1 Site Description The site is located at 2500 West Lodi Avenue, in the City of Lodi, California, and consists of a retail gasoline station and car wash The site borders a shopping center/parking area to the west ' and south, West Lodi Avenue to the north and South Main Canal to the east Three 12,000-gallon underground storage tanks(USTs) and three fuel dispensing islands are present at the site The tanks and dispensers store and dispense regular, plus and premium grade unleaded gasolmes At least one of the tanks has been used to store leaded gasoline in the past The surface elevation of the site as reported by Applied Geosystems on December 5, 1989 is approximately 37 to 38-feet above mean sea level (MSL) The locations of the USTs and fuel dispensing islands are presented as Figure 2 (Site Plan) ' 2.1.1 Geology and Regional Hydrogeology The site is located within the south-central portion of the Sacramento Valley The valley is a broad northwest trending structural trough bounded by the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Coast range to the west, the Cascades to the north and the Transverse Range to the south The site is underlain by the Pleistocene Modesto Formation Deposits of the Modesto Formation were laid ' down as a series of coalescing alluvial fans and consist in large part of gravel, sand and silt According to March and Allwardt (1977), numerous channels are present within the Modesto Formation that create rapid lateral changes in texture The site is in the Western San Joaquin County Groundwater Basin The regional groundwater gradient in the Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Basin is to the southwest (California Department of Water Resources, 1980) ' The Mokelumne River lies approximately one mile north of the site The South Main Canal on the eastern edge of the property is used to transport water down seasonally from the Mokelumne • River for irrigation Water in the canal flows to the south and since it is unlined it should act as a ' source of groundwater recharge in the area ' 1