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The Right Test
A "Definitive Test" that tells what is there or not there is the "right test," but it can be done with
Ground Penetrating Radar using the proper equipment and technique.
 
The right test is a 3D test where the "X" and "Y" axes are obtained by running the ground penetrating radar unit North and South for the "X axis" and then East and West across the floor for the "Y axis." The software then interpolates the "Z axis" which then gives a 3-dimensional image. It gives you pictures just like a MRI scan that doctors do of your body. You can then look at "slices" of the picture. Just like looking at slices of the picture of your body, you can look at slices of what is under the ground and see what is there. If it is a pipe, you can see how big the pipe is. If the pipe has fluid in it, you can sometimes even tell if the pipe is full. Like finding tumors in your body. GPR finds buried items underground or it finds there absence. It doesn't just fail "unless you need it to" or it is incompetently done with the wrong equipment.

Both of these pictures have had the results of the GPR test exported to computer aided design programs ("CAD") for a better representation of the results. Both pictures show the "cube" a good 3D GPR scan can achieve. With the right antennae (GSSI's 270MHZ) you can "see" below the concrete slab and rebar. This takes about 2 hours to do and does no damage to anything.

"With the development of high frequency antennas, computer hardware and software to store and process the massive data files has resulted in GPR being able to accurately image and position structure embedded in concrete." A good 3D GPR test would see the rebar as just “one level of information.” It would still have the other levels of information below that one. That Shell is trying to tell anyone anything different than this, is an attempt to defraud the public, the Water Board, the District Attorney and the press (the proof of this statement is here). Even if they used the wrong antenna needed for deeper penetration, they still should have come up with a definitive result (see below).
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Impossible to do a Real "Failed Test"
It would be near impossible using any antennae or doing any GPR test at all to miss the tops of the hydraulic lifts. They are made of steel and come through and sit above the reinforcing steel bars in the concrete. This above picture shows a representation of what you would see doing any real GPR test on the concrete floor of a service station with the lifts in place under the second pour of the concrete. If the lifts were removed you would see a hole in the grid pattern of the rebar, where the rebar never was (represented by the blue dot above). If the rebar was replaced in that area, you would see a "rebar patch." To the right is an actual 3D generated GPR picture of rebar done by IST Laboratory. This is what Shell should have seen. How could Shell miss a huge metal lift or the hole it would have left if it had been removed?
 
The Exact Pattern of the Rebar can be Seen
Saying the test failed because of "rebar and concrete thickness" would be "funny" if Shell wasn't trying to criminally hide a prior crime; given the state of the art in current GPR equipment, computers and software. This picture shows the actual position of the rebar mats in concrete. With all the billions in profits Royal Dutch Shell made this year and last year from the price of gasoline (the most profitable company on the planet), Shell can't afford to do a good GPR test and import it into a CAD program? Again, if all Shell could find was the rebar in the concrete using the wrong antenna, they would still have either found the heads of the two hydraulic lifts or the "holes" in the rebar pattern if the lifts were removed. It just isn't possible to do a "failed test" unless Shell is intentionally, maliciously and criminally trying to hide the fact that the lifts are actually there. The District Attorney and the Water Boards cannot be allowed to buy off on that criminal act by Shell.