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Approved MCLE Credits - 8 hours
Co-Sponsors:
ARCADIS | CH2M HILL | Haley & Aldrich
Refreshment Sponsor: TRC
Thank you to everyone who participated in our quiz, Test Your Solvents Knowledge!
The answer key is available at http://www.grac.org/solventkey.pdf
If you missed the quiz and want to take it offline, go to http://www.grac.org/solventquiz.doc
GRA is pleased to announce a symposium on Solvent Release Sites. While major improvements in regulation, management, and handling of solvents have nearly eliminated new solvent releases to the subsurface, legacy releases from past decades continue to present numerous technical and institutional challenges to society and to environmental and public health professionals. Many contaminated sites seem to be mired in never-ending active remediation with little improvement observed in restoration results, particularly where a well-designed remedy using appropriate characterization methods is lacking. Without a clearly defined closure strategy, it is not possible to reach agreements among the stakeholders as to when to stop active remediation or monitoring.
Attempting to effectively and efficiently address solvent release sites involves not only difficult technical issues, but also policy challenges such as establishing effective performance monitoring objectives and methods, including mass flux evaluation and risk-based cleanup standards. This symposium will provide a valuable forum for dissemination of leading-edge research and innovative field applications that demonstrate advances in solvent site characterization, remediation, and closure. Professional education and discussion among members of the academic, consulting, and regulatory communities are critical in advancing our understanding of the ongoing cleanup challenges, evaluating successes and lessons learned in this field, and effectively deploying limited economic resources while also protecting human health and groundwater resources.
Topics to be covered during this one day symposium include, but are not limited, to the following:
1. Innovative tools in site characterization
- Field applications
- High-resolution data collection
- Visualization, data management, and site conceptual model development
- Evaluation of biodegradation processes with compound-specific isotope analysis, biotraps, and molecular probe techniques
2. Source cleanup using innovative technologies or treatment train approaches
- In situ chemical oxidation (ISCO)
- Enhanced in situ bioremediation (EISB)
- In situ thermal technologies
- Other innovative technologies
- Physical removal methods: pump and treat, soil vapor extraction, air sparging
3. Plume management
- Diffuse plume structure
- Mass Flux and Mass Discharge measurement and tools
- Innovative tools to assess matrix diffusion and estimate cleanup timeframes
- Emerging technologies for monitored natural attenuation (MNA) assessment
4. Remedial Process Optimization (RPO) case studies
- Performance-based solvent impacted site management approaches
- Application of sustainable principles at solvent impacted sites
5. Site closure strategies
HOTEL INFORMATION
Santa Clara Marriott Hotel
2700 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Toll-Free: 1 (800) 228-9290
Tel: (408) 988-1500
SPONSOR AND EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES
If you are interested in exhibiting your organization's services or products, or being an event sponsor, please contact Mary Megarry (mmegarry@nossaman.com; 916-446-3626). GRA welcomes co-sponsors as well as lunch, break, reception and student poster competition sponsors.
Sponsor and Exhibitor invitation and order form >>
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