CEMEX Eliot Quarry

Geotechnical Characterization Report

Alameda County, California
Page 5

Figure 3. Livermore Valley Groundwater Basin (Zone 7 Water Agency, 2011).

Livermore-Amador Valley encompasses approximately 42,000 acres, is about 14 miles long (east
to west), and varies from three miles to six miles wide (north to south). The Livermore Valley
Groundwater Basin is located in the central part of the Livermore-Amador Valley. The Main Basin
is a part of the Livermore Valley Groundwater Basin that contains the highest-yielding aquifers and
the best groundwater quality. Lake A and Lake B are located within the southeast corner of the
Main Basin.

The Livermore-Amador Valley is partially filled with alluvial fan, stream, and lake deposits,
collectively referred to as alluvium. The alluvium in the valley consists of unconsolidated gravel,
sand, silt, and clay. Alluvial fans occur where streams and rivers from hilly or mountainous areas
enter a valley and deposit very coarse sediment, primarily sand and gravel. The silt and clay were
deposited in floodplain areas or lakes that developed at different times across the basin. The
alluvium is relatively young from a geologic perspective, being deposited during the Pleistocene
and Holocene geologic epochs (younger than 1.6 million years old). In the west-central area of the
basin, the alluvium is up to 800 feet thick, but thins along the margins of the valley.

The southeastern and central parts of the Main Basin area contain the coarsest alluvial fan
deposits. These alluvial fan deposits were formed by the ancestral and present Arroyo del Valle
and Arroyo Mocho. The coarse alluvial fan deposits are economically important aggregate
deposits, which has resulted in the widespread aggregate mining in the Main Basin area. Recent
investigations conducted on behalf of Zone 7 (2011) have been used to refine the interpretation
of subsurface conditions based on specific stratigraphic depositional sequences, or the specific
layering of the sediments that occur from changes in the conditions at the time the aggregate
material was deposited. Drillhole data and aquifer pumping tests conducted by Zone 7 (2011)

KANE GeoTech, Inc.