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Lriemorancluni <br />CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD • CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br />3201 S Street <br /> Sacramento, California 95816 Phone: 445-0270 <br />DATE: <br />26 February 1986 <br /> SIGNATURE: Loud T cOcz,,c-P <br />SUBJECT: ARCADY OIL <br />I (Dan Ward) got a call from a person from State Forestry Department on Sunday <br />23 February 1986 who told me to call Emmett Lenihan, a Fish and Game Warden in <br />Stockton. Lenihan told me that the Arcady Oil Class III Site had flooded and <br />there was oil and gas in the adjoining slough. <br />At the site, at 12:00 noon on 23 February, I met with the following people: <br />Al Kisner, Arcady Oil (209) 465-7192 <br />Sam Wildblood, Southern Pacific Pipeline (415) 689-2620 <br />J.A. Whilelaw, Southern Pacific Pipeline (415) 689-2620 <br />R.L. Cardinal, Southern Pacific Pipeline (415) 689-2620 <br />Emmett Lenihan, Department of Fish and Game (209) 951-0560 <br />John Stark, Department of Fish and Game (209) 951-0560 <br />Ken Matson, Coast Guard <br />Max Prout, Coast Guard <br />CHP Personnel <br />County Sheriff Deputies <br />Jim Miller, San Joaquin Local Health District <br />The site was flooded and the adjoining slough was within one foot of doing it <br />again. There was floating oil on the site, the slough and across the road in <br />the other slough. There is a culvert connecting the sloughs. <br />Kisner committed Arcady's resources to clean up all of the oil on surface waters <br />near the site, and any away from the site that they can find. Kisner also said <br />they will begin building the levee up on Tuesday morning. <br />R. L. Cardinal of Southern Pacific (SP) said they would do all they could to get <br />the oily product off the water at the site and nearby. Arcady and SP each hired <br />one tanker; one had gone and one had about half filled up when I left. SP also <br />will investigate to see if the pipeline leak is causing the gasoline in the <br />ground water. Until they find out, they are working under the assumption that <br />the oil is theirs. I told Cardinal that they should consider extraction wells <br />after definition had been made. They are going to excavate to see what the <br />pipeline looked like. I said if they were the responsible party, they were <br />responsible for cleanup of soil and ground water. <br />TO: <br />J. Lawrence Pearson <br /> FROM: <br />Antonia Vorster, <br />Supervising Engineer Dan Ward