NGWA Offers Course On Low-Cost Soil And Groundwater Remediation Strategies
The National Ground Water Association is offering the three-day course, "Low-Cost Remediation Strategies for Contaminated Soil and Groundwater on February 22-24 in Dulles, Virginia.
This course provides participants with practical, technically sound guidelines on how to select the right technology for a particular site as well as how to properly design, install, and monitor that technology to meet site closure requirements.
Technologies covered include natural attenuation, enhanced bioremediation, air sparging, and phytoremediation for remediation of contaminated groundwater, bioventing for remediation of contaminated soil, and bioslurping for removal of light, non-aqueous phase liquids.
In this course, participants will:
- Be provided with a balance of theory and application
- Develop expertise on evaluating the significance of natural attenuation processes at groundwater-contaminated sites
- Discover how to effectively analyze data to allow quantification of rates of contaminant transport and attenuation
- Acquire the necessary theoretical background and skills to design and implement low-cost remediation systems
- Learn "keep it simple" design and operation guidelines
- Receive practical information on how to evaluate individual sites for technology applicability, perform streamlined pilot tests to confirm applicability and obtain critical design criteria, and implement expanded or full-scale remediation systems.
It is assumed in this intermediate-level course that participants have some experience in remediation system design. The course is suited to:
- Site owners
- Remediation engineers
- Environmental consultants
- Regulatory personnel
- University researchers
- Graduate students.
The course instructors are:
- Patrick E. Haas, M.S., president and principal scientist at P.E. Haas & Associates LLC. Haas has hands-on experience collecting, analyzing, and evaluating groundwater natural attenuation geochemical parameters, passive diffusion sampler data, soil gas data, vertical profiling data, and performance monitoring data for a wide variety of remediation technologies. His experience includes start-to-site-closure involvement in the project management, design, installation, operation, and maintenance of bioventing systems, soil vapor extraction systems, conventional and vacuum-enhanced LNAPL free product recovery systems, dual phase extraction systems, and air and gas sparging systems.
- Todd H. Wiedemeier, PG, president of T.H. Wiedemeier & Associates LLC. Wiedemeier has more than 14 years of experience in remediation and has conducted natural attenuation and bioremediation feasibility studies at more than 100 sites contaminated with fuel hydrocarbons, MTBE, and chlorinated solvents. Wiedemeier is the author of more than 100 publications on remediation, including the widely used Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence document titled Technical Protocol for Implementing Intrinsic Remediation with Long-Term Monitoring for Natural Attenuation of Fuel Hydrocarbons Dissolved in Groundwater, and the U.S. EPA document titled Technical Protocol for Evaluating the Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents Dissolved in Groundwater.
To learn more about this course, as well as the many other NGWA educational programs, click on the "Events/Education" menu tab above or call 800 551.7379 (614 898.7791).
About NGWA
NGWA, a nonprofit organization comprised of more than 13,000 U.S. and international groundwater professionals—contractors, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, scientists, and engineers—is dedicated to advancing groundwater knowledge. NGWA's vision is to be the leading groundwater association that advocates the responsible development, management, and use of water.
SOURCE: National Ground Water Association