ARCHIVED REPORTS_SITE INVESTIGATION 2003 FINAL RPT

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concrete, several old trucks, car parts, appliances, and old farm equipment. The observed wastes violated disposal and storage regulations. June 2, 1998, an EHD employee inspected the property and pictures taken from the roadway indicated solid waste had been recently been dumped on the property. The photographs show piles of organic waste (trees and bushes), tires, and household solid waste (Appendix A). June 3, 1998, an EHD employee inspected and investigated the property with a Code Enforcement Officer with the San Joaquin County Community Development Department (CDD) and CIWMB personnel. The site was viewed from South Santa Fe Road and from the Lane property. Reportedly, there were signs of recent dumping as evidenced by digging and other earth work and piles of fresh putrescible material and mixed solid wastes, The volume of solid wastes above ground on the property were estimated to be at least 800 cubic yards, contained in piles and scattered across the property. June 26, 1998, research was performed at the CDD Planning Division and it was determined that the Lynch and Bill Lane properties were part of the former SSDS prior to being sold and split. July 24, 1998, the EHD sent a letter dated July 16, 1998 to the current property owner, Delta Funding Limited, c/o Cal State Home Loans, P.O. Box 7636, Stockton, CA 95207. The letter contained an order to cease and desist any further unauthorized disposal of solid waste upon the property. February 8, 1999, the EHD visited the site from the roadway and noted that no progress regarding removal of the wastes had been performed. February 9 1998 and May 10, 1999, letters from the EHD to a representative of the current property owner were sent requesting that a work plan to remove waste from the property within specified time frames be submitted to the EHD. April 10, 2000, a Notice and Order was issued to Delta Funding, current property owner, to cease and desist any further unauthorized disposal of solid/hazardous waste, remove all unauthorized solid/hazardous waste from the subject property and to submit a detailed plan and schedule for compliance with cited violations. Bill Lane IDS Based on information obtained from the Solid Waste Cleanup Program AB2136 site Investigation Report, prepared June 3, 1998, records indicate that disposal activities have occurred on this property since 1977. As the result of the San Joaquin County DA s office 1991 prosecution, the property owner was ordered to "turn over soil on the property, soil brought in by defendant 25% per year." Soil was "to be sifted for hazardous & construction materials which are to be removed. To allow a search & inspection on the property by the S. J. Planning Dept. at arranged times." In addition, a $10,990 fine/fee was imposed on the owner. The LEA and Code Enforcement office recently became aware of that disposal activities have resumed and that the property owner did not satisfy the court judgment. The LEA requested AB 2136 staff to evaluate the site for possible clean up consideration. Based on the June 1998 report, the property owner had primarily accepted, for a fee, construction/demolition debris from local contractors and had then buried this material along the western edge of the property against the elevated berm of the BNSF railroad. 1-13