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Till material deposited during tha Vashon glaciation covers the surface of coastal pleteau blocks to an <br /> average dept6 of about SO feet and is as much as 150 t6ick in places. Everett lies ou the coastal plateau block __ <br /> known as the "Intercity Pleteau" occucriog betweeo Puget Sound and the Sno6omish River. The till remains <br /> on many of the msrginal slopes of the plateau blocks. Bene�th the till on the Intercity Plateau, lias a thick <br /> zane of sand and gravel, t6e Fsperence Sand member. In some places, the entiro deposit is saturated wit6 <br /> water and is considered t6e most impoRant ground-water body that occurs beneaW the Intercity Plateau. The — <br /> Vashon till wvering the Everett enea is largely impermeable and, theroforo, a poor aquifcr, although gravel <br /> streaks within t6e till could concentrate shellow ground-water end create small "penched" aquifers. <br /> 'Ibe elevation at the Site is epproximately between ]00 and I15 feU aUove mean sea level with the natural <br /> terrain sloping genUy east towud the Snahomish River. No evidence of spriags or other groundwater rnnoff <br /> wero observed along the 6illside on eastern poRion of the Siu. This would indicate that "pec�chad" <br /> groundwater is probably not present at t6e Site. Ground-water would most likely occur betwxn 50 and 100 <br /> fcet below the natueal ground surfecx of the Site and would migcate in a easterly direction, towarct the <br /> Soohomish River. <br /> 4.0 SCOPE OF WORK <br /> 7Le rationele for t6e scope of wodc was to collect surface and subsurFace soils for chemical analysis to <br /> eveluate if a potential environmental risk exists at the site associated with coastruction debris and the "sand <br /> cap" on the nonh parcel, and potentiel off-site sounces for both the noRh and sout6 parcels. 'Ihe iniNal scope <br /> of work included: <br /> • excava8on of four test pits to 10 feet bgs on the noAh pamel for the collxtion of eight subsurface <br /> soil samples for chemical amlysis of total pe.roleum hydmcarbons (TPI� and heavy metals (atsenic, <br /> bsrium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, selenium, silver, and zine), <br /> • collection of subsurface soil semples from t6roe hanQ-auger borings located at the toe of the fill slope <br /> on the noRh pancel for chemical aoalysis of TPH and heavy metals and three hand-auger borings <br /> aceally distributed ova the south percel for the chemical analysis of heavy metals (samples collected <br /> from hand-auger borings were wmposited fi+om three discrete samples collected at one,two and three <br /> feet 68s), , <br /> • collection of one surface soil sample from the "sand cap" material for c6emical analysis of 6eavy <br /> metals, and <br /> • preperstion of a report summarizing the results of the field progrem aad analytical results. <br /> Based on the analytical results of soil samples wllected during the initiel scope of work, the following <br /> additionel work was performed: <br /> • excavation of five test piu to 10 feu bgs on the north parcel for the collection of ten subsurface soil <br /> samples for chemical analysis of TPH and volatile organic compounds �Sve samples), and <br /> • collection of hvo surface soil samples from sediment � �Iged from the Snohomish River and <br /> stockpilad at Lengus Pazk for chemical analysis of TPH an.. 5eavy metals. <br /> 4 <br />