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Box 537), Momington, 3931 Tel: (03) 5975 6644 Fax: (03) 5975 9589 also at: Dandenong (03) 9 769 2121 Wonthaggi (03) 5672 3900 Drouin (03) 5625 451 1 and Mitcham (03) 9 874 5844 CONTAMINATION SITE ASSESSMENT 80 LATROBE STREET, MENTONE CLIENT Paul Dunand 80 Latrobe Street MENTONE VIC. AUTHORISED BY : Paul Dunand PROJECT Contamination Site Assessment Report For Environmental Audit (80 Latrobe Street) Mentone VIC. COMMISSION Carry out appropriate insitu soil sampling, observations and chemical analysis at locations as shown on the attached plan (Appendix A). , CONTAMINATION SITE ASSESSMENT 80 LATROBE STREET. MENTONE TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 4 I .1 AIM..................................................................................................................................................................... 4 2 SOURCE OF INFORMATION .............................................................................................................................. 5 3 SITE HISTORY ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 3.1 nTLE SURVEY ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 3.2 AERIALPHOTOGRAPHS ....................................................................................................................................... 6 3.3 HISTORICAL RECORDS ......................................................................................................................................... 6 4 INVESTIGATION ................................................................................................................................................... 9 4.1 SITE DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................................... 9 5 SITE GEOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY ....................................................................................................... 9 5.1 GENERALISEDSUBSURFACE BOREHOLE PROFILE SUMMARY ............................................................................. 12 6 SAMPLING DESIGN ............................................................................................................................................ 12 6.1 SAMPLING PROGRAM ........................................................................................................................................ 13 7 SAMPLING CODES .............................................................................................................................................. 15 7.1 ADEQUACY OF SAMPLINGPROGRAM ................................................................................................................ 16 7.2 PHOTOIONIZATIONDETECTOR .......................................................................................................................... 16 7.3 SOILSAMPLING FOR PID ................................................................................................................................... 17 8 QUALITY CONTROL AND QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLES ............................................................... 18 8.1 BLINDREPL~CATE SAMPLE: ............................................................................................................................... 18 8.2 SPLITSAMPLE: .................................................................................................................................................. 20 8.3 FUNSATE BLANKS: ............................................................................................................................................. 22 8.4 EVALUATIONOF QUALITY CONTROL SAMPLES: ................................................................................................. 22 9 EVALUATION OF COMPOSITE SAMPLES: .................................................................................................. 22 10 CHAIN OF-CUSTODY FORMS ...................................................................................................................... 22 11 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ................................................................................................. 23 12 LABORATORY QUALITY CONTROL RESULTS...................................................................................... 23 12.1 ANALYSISBLANK ............................................................................................................................................. 23 12.2 DUPLICATEANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................... 24 12.3 LABORATORYCONTROL SA~~~LE .....................................................................................................................