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KEI-P89-1104 .QR4 February 3 , 1992 Page 8 Destruction of the abandoned water well was completed on January/ 24 , 1992 , per KEI 's work plan (KEI-P89-1104 .P4) dated July 19, 1990. HYDROLOGY AND GEOLOGY Based on the water level data gathered on December 30, 1991, the ground water flow direction appeared to be relatively flat, but trending toward the east-southeast at an average gradient of 0. 002 . This flow direction is relatively unchanged from the flow direction reported for the last three quarters. Water levels have steadily increased during the quarter, showing a net increase of 2 .80 to 2 . 85 feet in all wells since September 27, 1991. The measured depth to ground water at the site on December 30, 1991, ranged between 55 .45 and 56. 20 feet below grade. The subject site is located adjacent to the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta an the Central Valley geomorphic province. The Central Valley is a large, northwestward-trending, asymmetric structural trough that has been filled with as much as six vertical males of sediment in the San Joaquin Valley. Based on review of regional geologic maps (U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1401 "Geologic Maps of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California" by Brian F. Atwater, 1982) , the subject site is underlain by Holocene and/or upper Pleistocene alluvium identified as Alluvium of Calaveras River and Vicinity (Qcr) . The Calaveras River alluvium was deposited by the Calaveras River, Bear Creek and several lesser streams, and has not been described in detail. The results of our subsurface study indicate that the site is underlain by fill materials that are about 1 foot thick, except in the vicinity of MW3 at the former fuel tank pit, where pea gravel backfill materials were encountered to a depth of about 27 feet below grade. Immediately underlying the fill materials (except in the vicinity of MW3) is a zone of highly expansive silty clay extending to depths below grade of about 5. 5 to 7 . 5 feet. This expansive clay zone is anturn underlain by a lenticular sequence of silty clay and clayey silt materials extending to depths below grade of about 25 to 30. 5 feet. However, in MW1, this fine- grained sequence contains an approximately 2 . 5 foot thick lens of poorly graded sand that extends to a depth of about 13 feet below grade. The fine-grained sequence is inturn underlain by a predominantly sandy sequence extending to depths below grade of about 35 . 5 to 45. 5 feet, which as about 7. 5 to 8 feet thick at MW2 and MW3 , and is about 15 . 5 to 16 feet thick at MW1 and MW4 . This predominantly sandy sequence is characterized by salty sand and poorly graded to well graded sand, but locally includes lenses of gravelly sand and sandy silt. In MW4 , two silt lenses, each about 4 . 5 feet thick, are also included within this sandy sequence (only