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May 8, 2000 <br />Mr. Rich Shaw <br />Orange County Environment and <br />Resource Conservation Department <br />F.O. Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br />Reference: Executive Summary to Date <br />Triangle Community Foundation Property <br />Orange and Durham Counties, North Carolina <br />EX Project No. 15-004-902 <br />Dear Mr. Shaw: <br />Ei <br />Environmental Investigations, Inc. (En is performing a Fhase I Environmental Site Assessment <br />(ESA) on the Triangle Community Foundation Property located in northwestern. Durham and <br />northeastern Orange Counties, North Carolina.. This Phase I ESA is being conducted in.accordance <br />with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard Practice E 1527-97. <br />Tasks completed to date include the site and vicinity reconnaissance, review of a regulatory agency <br />database report obtained from Enviranmental ,Data Resources, Inc. (EDR) and collection of <br />published information on the environmental setting in the vicinity of the subject property. Limited <br />information on the history of the, subject property was obtained through review of three ESAs <br />conducted on portions of the subject property. An ESA of approximately 232 acres of land in <br />Orange County was completed by PEI Associates, Inc. in 1990, an ESA of 69.16 acres of land in <br />Orange County was completed by Sitex Environmental, Inc. in 1993, and an ESA of 265 acres of <br />land in Durham County was completed by Soil and Environmental Consultants, Inc. in 1996. <br />.,... <br />Tasks remaining to be completed. involve collection of information on the ownership history of the <br />property from the Register of Deeds Offices in Orange and Durham Counties. <br />The major findings of this assessment to date is presented below. <br />o The subject property consists of approximately 390 acres of land straddling the <br />Orange/Durham County lines in northwestern Durham and northeastern Orange Counties. <br />Approximately '135 acres of the site is located in Orange County, and the remainder is <br />located in Durham County. The subject property consists of mostly wooded, undeveloped <br />land with approximately 15 acres of open land in the southwestern comer of the property. <br />The property is irregularly-shaped and is bounded to the north/nartheast by the North Fork <br />of the Little River. The remainder of the site is bounded by wooded land and open pasture <br />land/farm fields. A small portion of the subject property has frontage along Guess Road (NC <br />Highway 157). The subject property is crossed by numerous unpavedtrails/roads. As stated <br />1~ <br />