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Page 1 of 1 Bottoms, Ron From: Bottoms, Ron Sent: Friday, June 26, 20096:09 PM To: 'Bill Love (billlove@att.net)'; 'Ed_Matuszak@URSCorp.com'; 'Pat Muston' Cc: Westbeld, Debbie Subject: Town Plaza fuel tanks Members of the 4B board: We have identified two small fuel tanks near our Town Plaza project that need to be removed and the area around them remediated. One of the tanks is on Garson's property, just south of the Parks and Wildlife building, right on the property line next to the Town Plaza. The other tank is about half way on Garson's property and half way in the alley just south of the Parks and Wildlife building - roughly ten feet from the Plaza property. Both of the tanks were ancillary to the Gas Station (the old Blue Building) that was on Garson's property. We were aware of one of the tanks but have since discovered a second tank. We could not determine if any contamination existed on our property until the concrete along San Jacinto Street was removed. Once the concrete was removed we had a crew from Public Works go down and trench along our side of the property line to look for potential contamination from these tanks (better to deal with it now rather than later once the Plaza has been constructed). We did discover what appears to be contaminated soil on the Plaza property (doesn't appear too significant). In my discussions with Knox it appears that the responsibility for any contamination associated with the tanks, and the tanks themselves, is Garson's. I have spoken to Garson about the tanks and he stated that he currently does not have the funds to have the tanks removed and the soil remediated. In addition to this being an environmental issue with our water well close by, yesterday I spoke to our Plaza contractor and asked him if the tank removal/remediation was impacting his schedule and he stated that it's not right now, but that it will if we don't address it by the end of next week. So, I have asked Clark to develop an access agreement for Garson's signature to allow our contractor to remove the tanks on his property. I've also asked Clark to develop an agreement for Garson's signature to ensure that we ultimately recover our costs for the tank removal and soil remediation. We have received an estimate of around $35,000 for the tank removal and remediation and hope to have the tanks removed by mid week using Plaza contingency funds. I wanted you to be fully aware of what we are doing. Please let me know if you have any questions. Ron 4/21/2010