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. I <br /> � Mr. Bnxe Vanderwall <br /> _. April 16, 2008 <br /> i <br /> The gradient over the property is gentle and downward to tfie southwest. A small 10 to <br /> ^� 15 foot high slope descends down to a stream along the south and soutl�west margins <br /> � of the property. This slope has gredients of about 25 to 30 percent along the south <br /> . margin of the property and 15 to 20 percent below tl�e west property line in the <br /> . southwest quadrdnt of the site. The slope has been planted and the stream mitigated. <br /> for the Wat-Mart project. • <br /> , A small wood-fiame office for a painting conhactor exists in the south section of the <br /> property. A small mobile trailer in the northwest sectfon is the offtce for a used car <br /> sales company. Some portions of the site are fenced, but most of the remaining site <br /> area is covered with business parking and used cars for sale. No springs or surface <br /> water were noted anywhere on the gently sloping site or the adjacent slopes to the <br /> south and southwest. <br /> Subsu�face � <br /> It appears that the building pad area lies near the border between the eastem pre- <br /> existlng grade and the westem fill areas from old development on the site. The two <br /> westem borings aligned along the planned west building wall encountered three to <br /> seven feet of old fill. The borings drilled along the planned east buiiding wall did not <br /> encounter any old fills. It appears tt�at the site area was leveled long ago by cutting <br /> along the east site margin and filling across the sbpe of the pre-existing stream swale. . <br /> While about s(x or seven feet of fill underlfes the planned southwest buflding comer, the <br /> fills may be up to ten feet deep under the extreme southwest property tomer. <br /> - fie fills consfst of silry sand soils containing some graveis and small debris along with <br /> scattered organics. We anticipate that the original topsoil on the old stream swale � <br /> slopes was not stripped years ago prior to filling, This topsoil was encountered in Boring <br /> B-4. The fill directly overlies a red tan to tan, weatl,�red till layer of several feet in <br /> thickness. � The deeper unweathered glacial till layer Ues under much of the planned <br /> east side of bu(Iding at shallow grades and at about 5 to 7 feet in depth under the filis <br /> along the west wall area. The native soils �ontaining the glacial ti�i were deposited <br /> about 12,000 to 15,000 years ago by the last Ice Age glacier to cover the Puget Sound <br /> lowlands. Up to 5,000 feet of ice consolidated the unsorted mix of sand, silt, and gravel <br /> into the very dense present day dll material. The native glacial till soil unit is mapped <br /> throughout the area on the Soil Conservation Service maps and is called Alderwood <br /> Group soil. <br /> Project No. 12 �"`1 <br /> Page No 4/)� � <br />