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generated was collected and placed into a DOT approved 55-gallon storage drum The purge bailer was thoroughly cleaned with Alconox and triple rinsed with distilled water prior to its use in each well. ' After purging and stabilization of the evacuated water's parameters or removal of three well casing volumes of water (which ever came first), groundwater was collected from ' each well using disposable polyethylene bailers The samples were poured from the bailer into two 40 ml VOA vials and two 1 liter amber glass bottles, labeled, and stored in a chilled ' ice chest for transportation to AEN (a State certified analytical laboratory). Prior to sample collection in each well, bailer blanks were created by rinsing distilled water from the bailer into a 40 ml VOA sample vial Transport and handling of samples was performed under strict chain-of-custody protocol The samples were analyzed for BTEX and TPH-G using EPA Method 602 and 3510, respectively and TPH-E using EPA Method 3550/8015-Modified The travel blank was ' analyzed for BTEX and TPH The bailer blanks were designated to be analyzed for BTEX and gasoline only if moderate concentrations of these compounds were detected in that specific monitor well sample (consequently, the bailer blanks were not analyzed). Petroleum hydrocarbons within the diesel range were detected in MW-3 (TPH-d = 0 06 mg/L) and MW-5 (TPH-d = 0.1 mg/L). The detected diesel-range concentrations are lust above the reporting limit of 0 05 mg/1- Benzene (5 pg/L) was detected in the initial groundwater sample collected from MW-5 The reported benzene concentration is suspect ' since the reporting limit of this compound was raised to 5.0 pg/L due to matrix interference and due to the fact that no benzene was detected m any of the historical or recently collected soil samples on site. A re-analysis of this sample (still within the holding time from a preserved 1-liter sample that had approximately 5 ml of air bubbles head-space) was performed at a 1:2 dilution, as opposed to the 110 over-dilution initially used. The results of the re-analysis did not detect any benzene (<10 mg/L) The analytical results of the other wells were non-detect for all analytes tested. Hard copies of the analytical results from the most recent groundwater sampling are presented in Appendix D. To confirm the analytical benzene sample result from the October 18, 1994 sampling, Well MW-5 was purged and resampled on November 18, 1994. A total of 10-gallons of water 8