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Memo to J. Lawrence Pearson -2- 26 February 1986 I called Richard Martyn of EPA at (415) 386-7209. He asked me for information and I gave it to him. I also called the State Office of Emergency Services (OES) and spoke to Charles O'Neil. He was aware of the situation. Arcady was using a boat, adsorbent pads and booms to localize and remove the oil on surface waters. I said this must continue until all was removed. Kisner agreed to do the best they could. I said they must dispose of it properly and we wanted to see manifests. Both Kisner and Cardinal committed to call Ton on 24 February. Al Kisner called and just said it looked much improved over yesterday, they continue to remove floating material including oily substances and some yellow material. Ton called Mr. Cardinal at 3:00 p.m., he returned the call and assured us that SP is committed to do what we feel is necessary as long as we understand that SP will not clean up Arcady's problems. SP will get an environmental consultant and set up a meeting on-site with everyone to discuss what needs to be done on 2/27 p.m. or 2/28 a.m. Cardinal said they transport all kinds of finished products through the line including leaded and unleaded gasoline, GP-4 (jet fuel) and diesels which can be easily identified with a hydrometer (relative weight). He further said that they finished products can be distinguished from any oils associated with drilling muds. SP's pipeline was shut down on 2/23 at 10:00 a.m. Cardinal was surprised that Arcady had not warned SP immediately after they found the gasoline in their well in January. He feels that a slow leak at that time has became worse recently. They have records and can trace product losses. SP will go ahead and put in a new section to bypass the leak, pressure test it, and assure no product losses will occur during this work. Cardinal assured me that it will not hamper their cleanup efforts around the old, leaking line. Dan visited the site again on Tuesday, February 25th at 3:00 p.m. while SP was installing the bypass line. Dan observed the following: A 3-4 foot deep trench in the Trapper Slough levee was already dug for the pipeline by-pass. This trench had standing water in it and had obvious dark, hydrocarbon product floating on the water. The first section of pipe was being put in place. I spoke with Wildblood and said SP should begin cleanup of contaminated soil ground water and surface water ASAP. Arcady had several men working to cleanup both sides of the road in Trapper and Whiskey Sloughs. It appeared at the site that SP was taking more action to replace its pipeline than to clean the results of the spill. The material that Arcady had collected from Trapper Slough near the site looked like the same type of material that was collecting in the trench.