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Fox River Paper Compano • September 30, 2004 Addendum to 2003 Annual Groundwater-Monitoring Report Page 4 of 5 currently under directive from the Regional Board to evaluate the impacts of effluent disposal on groundwater quality. Nestles Nestles USA formerly operated an instant coffee and tea processing plant, located approximately 2,000 feet north of the FR site, from 1948 through 1986. Solvents used in the decaffeination process, and their daughter products (trichloroethene, dichloroethene, and vinyl chloride) have impacted soils at the site and groundwater throughout the Ripon area. Nestles' consultant, Environmental Cost Management, currently operates two groundwater-treatment systems in the area to remediate the contaminant plumes. The plumes have impacted the upper and intermediate aquifers along the northern and western portions of the FR site. Based on the distance of the remediation system's extraction wells from FR, the volume of water treated by the system(<500 gpm), and the relatively high permeability of the aquifer, it is unlikely that the extraction system would influence the hydraulic gradient in FR wells. The capture zone of the extraction wells, however, may extend beneath the FR site. An increase in TDS levels in the treatment system influent would indicate that higher TDS water originating at the FR is being captured by the system. Hydrogeologic Setting Geology and hydrogeology of the site and vicinity has been described in detail in previous reports.' Briefly, the Mill is located in the East San Joaquin Groundwater Basin and is underlain by a sequence of Tertiary and Quaternary aged continental deposits of the Tulare Formation. These deposits consist of interbedded sands/gravels and silts/clays or mixtures thereof. Four distinct aquifers or zones have been identified beneath the site and have been designated by L&A as the semiperched, upper, intermediate, and lower zones. The semiperched zone is unconfined and occurs from approximately 35 to 60 feet below ground surface (bgs). All other zones are semiconfined to confined. The upper zone occurs from approximately 85 to 110 feet bgs, the intermediate zone from 140 to 225 feet bgs, and the deep zone from 240 to greater than 300 feet bgs. Permeability in the aquifer zones has been estimated at approximately 525 gpd/ft2; permeability in the confining layers has been estimated at 3.5 gpd/ft2.2 Groundwater movement in the semiperched and upper semiconfined zones in the vicinity of Ripon is generally to the west.3 North of Ripon, groundwater moves to the north. Southwest of Ripon, on the southwest side of the San Joaquin River, groundwater also moves to the north, towards the river. 1 Lawrence&Associates,May 5, 1992,Impacts on Receiving Waters from Discharge at the Simpson Paper Company Facility, Ripon, California. 'Ibid., P. 27. 'Ibid., Fig. 3. 003287.00, Task 9 Lawrence&Associates \\Powervault2\shared\Clients\FoxRiver\QuarterlyMonitoring\2003\Addendum to 2003 Annual Report.doc