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The Pacific Coast Oil Company established crude oil processing activities, possibly oil refin,ng, in this area in the early 1900s. The Ticor Title Insurance preliminary report identified that an easement on APN 2._5 -15 -CC, in favor of the Pacific Coast Oil Company, was recorded in 1?022. The precise activities performed by the Pacific Coast Oil Company and the locations of the pipelines on the Dynasty could not be identified. Renown Enterprises is proposinc residential development on a 1�]-acre parcel located immediately west of the City Corporation Yard. This property was utilized as a crude oil heating, storage, and pumping station from the 1920s to the mid-1960s. Such stations were located every 16 miles to facilitate the transport Of crude oil from the fields i n Kett 1 eman Hills to refineries located in the San Francisco Day Area. Evidence indicates that the Associated Pumping Company operated the station from the 1920s to the 1940s and that the Tidewater Associated Oil Company (later acquired by the J. Paul Getty Oil Company) operated this station from the early -1940s to mid-1960s. Pumping station operations resulted in a significant amount of crude oil contamination of the soils. Renown Enterprises, with the assistance of AEMC, is presently worE::ing with the appropriate regulatory agencies to characterize the extent of the contamination and to develop a plan for property clean-up. AEMC obtained information that much of the pipeline transporting crude oil to and from the pumping station had been removed for salvage. Information as to the specific locations of removed pipeline could not be obtained. Southwest of the Renown Enterprises parcel is a small part-:, known as Resevoir Park. The Standard Oil Company owned a large crude oil storage tank situated at this site. Standard Oil utilized the crude oil stored in this tank for fueling steam locomotive engines during the 194C)s and 1950s. At the time the tank was removed (date unknown) it was discovered that a significant amount of crude oft had leaked through the bottom of the tank into the soils below. Except for the surface soils, apparently there was little or no attempt to remove the contaminated soils. There are locations in the vicinity of the park where crude oil has been detected at the ground surface, indicating significant subsurface contamination in the area. The City Corporation Yard presently exists on appro:;imately 10 -acres located immediately northwest of the Dynasty parcel. This yard was established in the 196os and is utilized primarily for the storage a,;d maintainance of City vehicles. AEMC toured the yard and found no evidence that past or present yard activities have resulted in any form of onsite contamination. Yard personnel showed AEMC one spot on the asphalt parking lot where, in the heat Of summer, free crude oil can be observed.