CEMEX Eliot Quarry

Geotechnical Characterization Report

Alameda County, California
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Figure 8. Geologic Cross Section B-B’.

MSL, respectively, but these layers were not encountered in the nearest adjacent boreholes. Thus,
the fine-grained layers that were encountered are discontinuous and very localized in extent.

The north end of Cross Section B-B’ (Figure 8) occurs at the borehole for the 13P well cluster
drilled for Zone 7 in 2010. The 2013 boreholes drilled for CEMEX extended to a maximum depth
of approximately 300 feet, or an elevation of 100-ft MSL. However, the 13P borehole was drilled
to a maximum depth of 618 feet, or an elevation of -239-ft MSL, substantially deeper than the
proposed maximum depth of mining in Lake B. As shown on Figure 8, silts or clays were not
encountered in the 13P borehole between approximately 325-ft MSL and approximately 95-ft MSL,
which is more than 50 feet below the proposed maximum mining depth for Lake B.

The borehole logs shown on Cross Section B-B’ (Figure 8) indicate a substantial lack of fine-
grained units above an elevation of 100-ft MSL. Thus, there is no indication of the occurrence of
any laterally continuous clay layers along the east and northeast side of Lake B within the
proposed mining depth. This finding is consistent with the interpretation presented by DWR (1966),
as shown on Figures 4 and 5. Cross Section B-B’ roughly follows the path of the ancestral Arroyo
del Valle channel and represents the area where the thickest and most continuous deposits of
coarse-grained material exist within the Amador sub-basin. The information presented on Figure
8 clearly demonstrates that there are no continuous clay layers in the area represented by Cross
Section B-B’, along the east and northeast sides of Lake B.

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