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1200 County-City Building, 227 West Jefferson, South Bend, Indiana 46601-1830 Phone 574/235-9371 Fax 574/235-9021
To: Redevelopment Commission
From: Bill Schalliol, Economic Development Planner
Subject: Proposal for Supplemental Environmental Services - Phifer Environmental
Main & Western Disposition Parcel
Date: November 16, 2009
As a result of the Phase I and II site investigations that have been performed on the Main
and Western Disposition Parcel, an additional level of testing needs to be done to verify and
quantify potential future actions that must occur on-site to prepare the parcel for disposition.
The site investigation done using the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system determined
that there are two areas of concern that require further investigation. One of the two sites
likely contains one but potentially two underground storage tanks. There are no records of
tanks being placed or removed on the site and therefore we need to do further discovery to
determine if these echoes are tanks or something else. Adjacent to the potential tank
locations, the GPR discovered a section of "disturbed soils" that contained potentially
unsuitable soils that were quantified and processed while doing the Geotechnical Probes for
soil and ground water testing. The readings on the soils were not of great concern except
for a pocket of materials near the depth of the probe which might need to be removed
pending review of further results.
A site investigation is being done on Wednesday (November 18th) to determine the final
scope of work that might be associated with the potential tank locations and a copy of a
revised proposal and staff report will be forwarded to you prior to this Friday's meeting.
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