CEMEX Eliot Quarry

Geotechnical Characterization Report

Alameda County, California
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Figure 6. Borehole Locations

Cross Section A-A’ (Figure 7) extends from the processing plant area and Lake J at the Eliot
Facility, near Stanley Boulevard, toward the southeast through Lake B and along the south side
of Lake A to Vallecitos Road. In the Lake A area, the sand and gravel deposits that constitute the
Quaternary Alluvium are approximately 100 feet thick, as indicated in boreholes BH2013-18
through BH2013-21. The alluvium is underlain by deposits that consist of gray and blue clays,
partially-cemented gravels, and tuffs (volcanic ash). The deposits that are present beneath the
alluvium are consistent with the description of the Lower Livermore Formation as defined by
Barlock (U.S. Geological Survey, 1989a). The relatively thin Quaternary Alluvium in the Lake A
area was also identified by DWR (1966), as indicated on Figures 4 and 5, which do not show the
presence of alluvial deposits from ancestral Arroyo del Valle east of Isabel Avenue in the depth
interval from 100-ft BGS to 200-ft BGS, but do show the occurrence of these deposits and the
course of the ancestral streambed in the depth interval from the ground surface down to 100-ft
BGS.

In the area of Isabel Avenue, between boreholes BH2013-17 and BH2013-1, the thickness of the
sand and gravel deposits of the Quaternary Alluvium become much thicker due to the presence
of a major erosional unconformity. As indicated on Figure 7, the thickness of the alluvium is at
least 300 feet in the area of Lake B. However, the total thickness is unknown because none of the
boreholes drilled in the Lake B area encountered the base of the alluvium.

The depth ranges and interpreted lateral extent of clay and silt deposits within the Quaternary
Alluvium that were encountered in the boreholes are also shown on each of the cross sections.
These clay and silt deposits typically form aquitard units that separate the main groundwater
aquifers within the main part of the Amador sub-basin. As shown on Figure 7, the clay and silt
deposits under Lake B area primarily thin and discontinuous. The approximate depth range of the
various aquifer and aquitard units identified by Zone 7 (2011) are indicated along the left side of

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