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

This webinar will walk through (1) how to become registered in EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX), (2) how to create, duplicate and find the status of export notices in EPA's Waste Import Export Tracking System (WIETS), and (3) how to create, duplicate and find the status of import notices in EPA's WIETS. Please join us! To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/CDXWIETS_040317/

The Interagency Workgroup on Five-Year Reviews will showcase the training module "CERCLA Five-Year Review Training-A Guide for Writers and Reviewers at Federal Facilities" and a guide for writing an Executive Summary for federal facility five-year reviews. These tools were developed through a collaborative effort by EPA, Department of Defense and its components, Department of Energy and Department of Interior...

This webinar will share how the reuse of Superfund sites can transition properties from toxic legacies to places that encourage and support neighborhood health and well-being. Learn how sites are being used to support health and wellness facilities such as doctors' offices, and how the reuse of sites as recreational areas bolsters healthy activities. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/SRI_032017/

Sites contaminated by chlorinated solvents present a daunting environmental challenge, especially at sites with dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) still present. Restoring sites contaminated by chlorinated solvents to typical regulatory criteria (low parts-per-billion concentrations) within a generation (~20 years) has proven exceptionally difficult, although there have been successes...

Contaminated site cleanup and environmental stewardship are costly tasks and continued research and innovation can lower the financial burden to site owners and to the taxpayer. A variety of technologies addressing groundwater contamination emerged and have been implemented. Bioremediation takes advantage of naturally occurring microorganisms that detoxify contaminants and in situ implementation of this approach promises to meet cleanup goals at reasonable costs...

For decades, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has produced and used military munitions for live-fire testing and training to prepare the U.S. military for combat operations. As a result, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and discarded military munitions may be present at over 5,200 former ranges and former munitions operating facilities throughout the United States...

Most decisions at groundwater contamination sites are driven by measurements of contaminant concentration -- snapshots of contaminant concentrations that may appear to be relatively stable or show notable changes over time. Decisions can be improved by considering mass flux and mass discharge...

Brownfield grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are one of many sources of funds that can support redevelopment of contaminated sites. This webinar will highlight a number of redevelopment resources available from the National Park Service (NPS), The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to leverage your brownfield dollars...

Institutional controls (ICs) are administrative or legal restrictions that provide protection from exposure to contaminants on a site. When ICs are jeopardized or fail, direct exposure to human health and the environment can occur...

Optimization activities can improve performance, increase monitoring efficiency, and support contaminated site decisions. Project managers can use geospatial analysis for evaluation of optimization opportunities. Unlike traditional statistical analysis, geospatial methods incorporate the spatial and temporal dependence between nearby data points, which is an important feature of almost all data collected as part of an environmental investigation...