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Section 7 Supplement: FMC Tanker Spill FMC SPILL SITE July 11, 1996: Tanker truck turned over spilling 6000 gallons (23000L) gasoline 500ft (150m) North from Bear Creek Emergency Response Team observed no standing gasoline, rapid infiltration The ERT was unable to locate subsurface free product FMC SPILL SITE 10ft (3m) dry silty sand top layer, 10ft (3m) wet sandy clay with gravel underneath Porosity ~0.4 Conductivity ~85ft/d (26m/d) Aquifer thickness ~20ft (6m) Groundwater surface ~7ft (2m) below ground surface Gradient estimated to be 0.0174 towards the southeast FMC SPILL SITE Contractor #1 (07/96) Geoprobed site to identify location of free product (07/96) Installed 4 monitoring wells Suggested air-sparging system (State did not approve) State noticed drillers were not licensed, equipment not registered (08/96) FMC SPILL SITE FMC Geoprobed site, found 6” (15cm) free product along the north and south side of highway (08/96) Installed an interceptor trench south of the highway Recovered free product from trench (09/96) FMC SPILL SITE Contractor #2 (09/96) Geoprobed site to locate free product and plume (10/96) Free product plume about 400ft (120m) long and 100ft (30m) wide Pump test showed tranmissivities ranging 1100-2000 ft2/d (100-186 m2/d) Estimated conductivity was 85ft/d (26m/d) Interceptor trench showed 3 (8cm) free product (10/96) FMC SPILL SITE Contractor #2 (Cont.) Installed 5 remediation wells, depth around 24ft (7m) inside interceptor trench (11/96) Manual operation of free product recovery system started in January 1997 Remediation system running 24h/d halfway March 1997 Pumping rates ~18 GPM (68 L/min), creating drawdowns of ~15ft (4.5m) FMC SPILL SITE Contractor #2 (Cont.) Never got more than 100 gallons (378 L) of free product from recovery system (07/97) Contractor terminated in 07/97 Contractor #3 (07/97) Unable to continue with existing system, remediation 3 weeks down. 2 MWs showed 19” (48cm) free product Dual Phase extraction system operat