266 Shell Lane

The Property is comprised of an elongated parcel, approximately 40 acres in size, located
east of US Highway 101, approximately ½ mile east of the former Remco Hydraulics Facility and approximately 1,000 feet east of Baechtel Creek (a perennial stream) within the City of Willits, California.

Approximately two acres of the southeastern portion of the Property was leased to Remco between 1982 and 1986. Remco reportedly utilized the leased land to store materials including hydraulic oil, drummed rinse water (generated from miscellaneous clean-up activities at the former Remco Facility), and empty drums that formerly contained coolants and oils. In the late 1970s, Remco also was reported to have used a small portion of the Property for pressure-testing a large hydraulic ram, which reportedly passed the pressure tests successfully. Various sources of information have alleged other Remco activities may have occurred at the Property. In particular, anonymous sources alleged that Remco had dumped liquid waste into the “log pond,” which occupied the mid-western quarter of the Property in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The log pond was filled in during the 1970s and early 1980s to a depth of approximately 4 to 8 ft with mill waste, riprap, and dirt taken from the Property. Additionally, a Remco truck transporting 55 gallon drums of unknown contents allegedly lost a portion of the load while turning around at the Property at a location adjacent to a former loading platform.

Since 2001, the Willits Trust has conducted several environmental investigations at the Property, including a Final Human Health Risk Assessment conducted August 2007.

Further information regarding these activities can be found on the Document Depository.