Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN): Internet Seminar Video Archives

Rural community residents and leaders often wish to revitalize their downtowns but do not know where to start or how to pay for the needed planning and infrastructure to move development forward. Written through the lens of rural Appalachia, the revitalization approaches described in the Downtown Revitalization Playbook can be used by small communities across the United States. Rural downtowns often include properties with contaminant concerns, including brownfields and Superfund sites...

This one-hour session will review updates to EPA's fact sheet Using Qualified Data to Document an Observed Release and Observed Contamination and changes to how certain types of qualified data can be used in Hazard Ranking System (HRS) evaluations. This session is designed for Environmental professionals that conduct HRS evaluations as part of EPA site assessment in evaluating sites for the National Priorities List (NPL)...

This webinar will introduce some recent advances in consideration of ecosystem services in contaminated site cleanups. The team will introduce concepts, tools, and example applications. Then the audience will be shown how to find newly available resources and places to turn to for consideration of ecosystem services in their cleanup efforts. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in...

This document provides an assessment of the potential exposure routes, plant uptake pathways, and remediation practices of chemicals contaminants found in crops grown in urban gardening sites. This report will focus on both inorganic and organic pollutants that are considered contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) by the U.S. EPA...

As part of a Virtual Student Federal Service internship project, this presentation provides an overview of the history, current use, and recommended improvements of the dilution attenuation factor (DAF) used when calculating soil screening levels (SSL), along with recommendations to address the assumption of an infinite contaminant source when calculating SSLs. This project focuses on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S...

The M2S2 webinars have proven to be valuable forums to share information across our munitions response industry, on a wide range of topics and presented by a variety of subject matter experts representing multiple perspectives...

OLEM is hosting its first in a series of Region-based Geophysics talks. This session will introduce the geophysics state of play, new EPA resources, and a brief overview of some of the more commonly used geophysical tools that help us understand Superfund geology, groundwater, and contaminant pathways. Then we will get to hear two case studies from Region 4: electrical resistivity imaging in Macon, GA and combined seismic and resistivity in Roxboro, NC...

This Progress in Research webinar series will showcase research from 11 new and renewed Multiproject Center grantees, funded by SRP in 2022. These awards were made as part of the P42 grant solicitation RFA-ES-20-014. In the four-part series, awardees will highlight their research projects, accomplishments, and next steps. The Duke University SRP Center studies the neurodevelopmental health impacts of early-life exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals...

The FRTR Spring 2023 General Meeting discussed recent advances in site characterization techniques and Conceptual Site Model (CSM) development. It included technical presentations with case studies highlighting how these advances are being applied to address key challenges at complex sites to improve the understanding of site conditions, identify and efficiently address data gaps, support remediation decisions, and accelerate site closure...

The Superfund Research Program (SRP) is holding a webinar to provide information about the new "Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42)" funding opportunity, RFA-ES-23-001. The new RFA was released on April 17, 2023, and the application deadline is October 2, 2023...