Continuing Education / Outreach

Sustainable Environmental Strategies for the 21 st Century & Beyond
“Find It, Fix It, SUSTAIN IT!” WEEK

Cutting Edge On-site Soil & Groundwater Remediation Solutions - Day 2

Wednesday August 26, 2009

Standard Fee
$349 per class
$895 for all three

Early bird (before 9/21/08)
$299 per class
$795 for all three

Fee includes course manual, refreshments, parking ( Parking is only free if instructions are followed.)

Health and safety professionals working for state or local government may be eligible for a $100 per day fee stipend (subject to availability of funds). If registering on-line and eligible for stipend, under Payment Method, check “Subsidy eligible.”

Payment Terms: Substitutions may be made at any time without additional charge. The registration fee, less 20%, is refundable if written notification is received at least 2 weeks prior to the program. For cancellation within 14 days prior to the course, 50% of the registration fee is refundable. If course materials such as books have been sent to course participants in advance, the cost of that material will be subtracted from the refund. "No shows" are subject to the full fee.

UCLA reserves the right to postpone an offering 7 days prior to the course date should minimum enrollment requirements not be met. If a program is canceled, you will be notified and your registration fee will be refunded in full, less the cost of course materials sent in advance if they are not returned in the condition in which they were received. The liability of UCLA is limited to the course fee.

SUSTAIN IT! WEEK Overview : A revolutionary interdisciplinary three-day workshop has been developed that offers a unique opportunity to learn both the theory and practice of sustainable environmental management. An interactive “hands-on” case history practitioner training approach will be utilized to cover the engineering, scientific, legal, political, and ethical dimensions of environmental sustainability. An internationally recognized team of chief executive officers, senior environmental consultants, professional engineers, and LEED accredited professionals will lead participants through the body of knowledge needed to practice in the 21 st century and beyond as sustainable environmental development program managers.

Day 1 Sustainable Environmental/Brownfield Site Management Overview - Sustainable development includes the proper use of limited resources to meet current human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also in the indefinite future. A rigorous analysis of scientific, legal, political and ethical issues will be conducted. Definitions and trade-offs between Brownfield and Greenfield development will be discussed. Innovative geo-chemical & geo-physical site investigation tools are now available to optimize the selective application of targeted remedial remedies in contaminant source areas. Principles of chemistry data validation will be reviewed.

Day 2 Cutting Edge On-site Soil & Groundwater Remediation Solutions Overview - For decades, environmental decision makers have evaluated site remediation projects solely by determining how much contaminant can be removed from soil and groundwater in the shortest possible time. Given what we now know about energy scarcity and global warming, it makes little sense, environmentally or economically, to emit tons of greenhouse gases into the air in order to remove pounds of contaminants from soil and water. Too many remediation projects essentially trade one form of pollution for another. This costs a lot of money, burns a lot of fuel, and does not result in a net environmental benefit. In the past, valuable remediation resources have been squandered hauling contaminated soil and debris from hazardous waste sites to landfills that have also become “Superfund” sites.

Sustainable remediation incorporates a judicious evaluation of limited resources when selecting and implementing remedies to maximize the net environmental, societal, and economic benefits of a cleanup action. The question today is how to include sustainability principles and practices into remedial decision making, remedy optimization, and remedy changes.

Day 3 Beyond Compliance - Proactive Sustainable Development Overview - "Command and control" compliance regulations were popular in the early stages of U.S. environmental regulation in the 1970's. They were based on engineering approaches to specific pollution sources, such as those designated as significant by the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. "Command and control" compliance regulations focus on preventing environmental problems by specifying how a company will manage a pollution-generating process. This approach generally relies on detailed regulations followed up by an ongoing inspection program.

"Performance oriented" regulation is an alternative whereby specific environmental performance goals, such as a reduction in the pollution associated with a process, is specified by the regulation and each facility determines the best method to achieve this goal. The concern with this approach is that it tends to be much more difficult to enforce because it requires an intimate understanding of the process and alternatives to the process. In general, the "performance oriented" approach requires the documentation of these and the environmental impacts associated with the process in a planning document, which can be reviewed by regulatory authorities. Proactive beyond compliance Sustainable Environmental Management Systems can form the basis for the format of such a plan.

Senior management executives, environmental consultants, governmental agency regulators, not for profit environmental decision makers, professional engineers, environmental project managers, and their technical staff.

DAY 2

• Trade-off between on-site versus off-site treatment & disposal
• When to use in-situ versus ex-situ remediation
• Green remediation technology solutions (EPA Guidance)
• Biological, chemical, and thermal treatment technologies
• Contaminant stabilization and containment technologies
• Combination of multiple treatment technologies

  Time	Module		Instructor
  8:00-8:45am	8. Innovative Chemical Regent Delivery Systems		Hicks
  8:45-9:30am	9. Bioremediation Overview		Raymond
  9:30-10:30am	10. Microbial Insights		Davis
  10:30-12:00pm	11. Monitored Natural Attenuation		Pirkle
  12:00-1:00pm	Lunch Break
  1:00-2:15pm	12. Chemical Oxidation/Reduction		Aboulafia
  2:15-3:00pm	13. Contamination Containment		Laird
  3:00-3:30pm		14. Contaminant Stabilization	Aboulafia
  3:00-3:30pm	15. Permeable Reactive Barriers		Laird
  4:00-5:00pm	16. Sustainable Remediation/Treatment Train Selection		Roberts

Richard T. Cartwright, PE, CHMM*, CPIM* – Course Director Senior Vice President MEC X , LP (Sustainable Development Workshop Facilitator, Past National President AHMP, National CHMM Course Trainer)

Isaac Aboulafia, PE, LEED AP Candidate , Senior Vice President, Chief Environmental Engineer, MEC X , LP (Sustainable Development Contributor in North & South America, Chemical Oxidation/Stabilization Remediation Technology Expert)

Nick Bauer, CHMM , Principal Scientist, Excalibur, Inc. (Environmental Management and Sustainable Development Expert)

David Billo, LSP, LEED AP Candidate , Senior Project Manager, BETA Group (Brownfields Remediation and Sustainable Development Expert)

Greg Davis , President/CEO Microbial Insights, Inc. (Microbiology Expert)

Patrick Hicks, PhD , Vice President, Wavefront Energy & Environmental Services (Remediation and Site Characterization Expert)

Robbie Laird, P.Eng , Principal Engineer, C3 Environmental Limited (Waterloo Barrier® Expert)

Craig Nicholson, LSP, LEED AP , Senior Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Ajax Partners (Sustainable Development Expert)

Robert Pirkle, PhD , President/CEO Microseeps, Inc. (Chemistry, Microbiology and Monitored Natural Attenuation Remediation Technology Expert)

Richard Raymond, Jr ., President/CEO TerraSystems, Inc. Sustainable Development Contributor in Europe, Asia, North America and South America; Member of Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF); and Member of Source Area Bioremediation Research project (SABRE)

Eric Roberts PE, PG , Principal Scientist, Excalibur Inc. (Remediation Systems Expert)

John Sohl , President/CEO Columbia Technologies, Inc. (Site Characterization Expert)

Elizabeth Wessling , Vice President, Chief Chemist, MEC X , LP (Chemistry Data Validation Expert)

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