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Satish Chopra's shell station at 230 S. Lincoln Avenue, Corona, California is the 1st location for determining the right test in order to find the abandoned toxic equipment from some number of the 13,000 Texaco stations Shell purchased.

 

You don't give up if the first test fails. You do the least intrusive test first and progress as needed to find the equipment. Shell did a GPR test that failed due to "rebar in the concrete slab." Alright, then do a GPR test under the concrete slab. That can't be an IQ test for the 2nd most profitable company on earth. Shell did a shoddy or incomplete test in Corona. Either way, a failed test is deceptive if is stops further investigation. A failed test proves nothing. Shell needs to either find the right test equipment and qualified personnel to do an above floor 3D GPR test that reads past the slab and creates a "cube" that can be read from the bottom up (see picture left) or Shell needs to do a 3D GPR test below the slab.  

 

Here's what the proper 3D GPR test would show: Click Here

 

 

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Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR

This picture is a two dimensional view of tanks under a reinforced concrete slab like it is at Satish chopra's Shell statoin in Corona. A 2D test is not as accurate as a 3D test and is more prone to failure. However, as you see here, a 2D test can find items under the rebar. I am virtually certain Shell did a deceptive 2D test as a means to NOT find the buried sump and hydraulic lifts. Either they used a very poor 2D test equipment, the wrong antennae (here's what the right antennae would show) or the tester was not experienced enough to read past the concrete and rebar. 

 

Shell, Governor Schwarzenegger and the Water Board all actively refused to tell me that Shell had done a failed GPR test when I was demanding one. Shell knew I could successfully do the test and did not want to tell me they did a failed one. So why would the Governor and the Water Board collude with Shell by aiding Shell in that effort to deceive me (Dr Phil says "lie by omission")?

 

I had to find out from the District Attorney Investigator that Shell did a failed GPR test. He has been the only "Player" that has been transparent in the pursuit of the truth. I have a geophysicist with lots of experience that can do a 3D test above the floor and find the equipment. It is not an "IQ test" for this "good ole country boy." Why is this an "IQ test" for Shell?


Cross Hole Survey

I do not believe that the Riverside District Attorney's Office would let itself be deceived by Shell Oil Company by thinking that one failed above the floor GPR test is the definitive test to find the truth at Satish Chopra's Lincoln Avenue shell station in Corona. As the last resort for discovering the truth, the District Attorney can not stop at one failed test when there are other easily available tests that can be conducted. In this website I have given anyone the means to do a test that will work under the concrete salb and steel reinforcements. This page alone is sufficient for any reasonable person to want to conduct a better test in light of the initial above floor failure. If it was truly in the interest of Shell Oil Company to find the abandoned equipment and prove what I have been telling them, that Texaco retailers abandoned their toxic waste filled garage sumps and hydraulic car lifts with hydraulic oil under their station slabs when they converted to foodmarts, Shell would have done it already.

 

I allege there was an environmental crime maliciously committed by Satish Chopra at 230 S. Lincoln Ave. in Corona, California. I am informed and believe Shell is actively trying to cover up that fact in order to not have to clean up some number of the 13,000 Texaco stations it purchased. That any of "The Players" could collude by not pressing for a definitive test, is unconscionable. Anyone not pressing for a definitive test from Shell needs to publicly explain why not cleaning up a pollution source 957 feet from a clean aquifer is not important. 

 

Shell cannot claim they did the only possible test at that location. That would be nonsense in light of the ease in doing a "cross hole survey" or a below the slab-line shallow trench test in the back of the station or, at the very least, a single borehole test (picture right). 

 

Any of these tests would not interrupt a single sale at that location.