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Cornerstone Columbia Development Co. W-6384 <br /> 5 July 1990 Page 3 <br /> interpretive logs of the explorations are presented in Appendix A. The approximate <br /> locations of the explorations are indicated on the Site and Exploration Plan, Figure 1. <br /> 3.1 Surface Conditions <br /> At the time of our exploration program, the undeveloped parcel was thickly covered with <br /> surface brush and alder trees. The parcel apparently was logged sometime in the past. <br /> Scattered evergreen trees were also observed on the parcel. The topography of the site <br /> slopes moderately from south to north, with an elevation of approx'mately 590 feet at the <br /> south and approximately 485 feet at the north. Several scattered areas of debris fill were <br /> observed onsite. These random areas of fill appeared to be generally limited to <br /> landscaping debris and garbage debris. A series of logging trails traverse the site. <br /> Existing fill should be expected in portions of the logging trails where they cress low-lying <br /> areas. <br /> No surface water was observed onsite at the time of our exploration, although the driving <br /> range located west of the site routes their surface water onto the subject parcel. A <br /> detention pond from the golf course has an overflow which runs across the northwest- <br /> corner of the subject property and into a concrete culvert which runs beneath the gravel <br /> trail at the north area of the property. During periods of rain, it is likely that substantial <br /> runoff from the driving range flows onto the subject property. <br /> 3.2 Subsurface Conditions <br /> Twelve test pits were excavated across the parcel. The subsurface conditions <br /> encountered at test pit locations were relatively consistent across the site. The surface <br /> of the site was mantled with a thin forest duff and topsoil layer of about 1/2 to 1 foot in <br /> thickness. Beneath the surficial topsoil we encountered a loose, moist, tan brown, silty <br /> sand with thick roots to a depth of approximately 2 feet. Underlying the loose silty sand, <br /> a medium dense, brown, silty gravelly sand (weathered glacial till) was observed. Dense <br /> glacial till was disclosed at approximately 3 to 4 feet in depth and observed to the bottom <br /> of our test pits. The glacial till was a dense to very dense, moist, gray, silty gravelly sand. <br /> The elacial till has been compressed by the considerable weight of glacial ice in the <br /> geologic past. Therefore, this till material and all soil units stratigraphically below the till <br /> are relatively incompressible and exhibit high shear strength characteristics. In test pit <br /> TP-3, we observed fill consisting of loose silty sand with some organics to a depth of <br />