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Cleary,
Cherry, Nielsen, Kavanaugh, Brownell and Kueper
This Course is approved by the Connecticut LEP
Board for 40 hours of CEC credits
and the Massachusetts LSP Board for 38 hours of
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Introduction
Groundwater
quality is a national priority issue
of immense and ever-growing
proportions. The Federal government
has passed strict, comprehensive and
long-term legislation such as the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA), the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act (SARA), the Safe
Drinking Water Act and the Pollution
Prevention Act. Many state governments
have passed even stricter regulations
to protect groundwater quality and to
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These
laws and regulations affect all sources of
groundwater contamination, including
chemical industries, gasoline stations,
industrial landfills and lagoons,
refineries, hazardous solid waste management
units, municipal and private solid waste
activities, nuclear waste disposal
practices, mining practices and
pesticide/fertilizer agricultural practices.
In addition, many state laws, banks and
insurance companies require groundwater
quality site assessments before commercial
property can be financed or sold. The
magnitude and extent of the problem is
reflected in EPA’s National Priorities
List, which now numbers over 1200 sites,
with an average cleanup cost of over $20
million per location. This list grows each
year as new sites are added through state
and federal groundwater programs.
Hundreds of lawsuits against private
industries, such as the Woburn,
Massachusetts case involving the leukemia
deaths of several children (documented in
the book and film, A Civil Action), have
brought a public awareness and determination
which has rarely been seen in past
environmental issues involving water and air
pollution. A measure of this concern is the
vigorously enforced state and federal
regulations which cover all aspects of the
problem from prevention to cleanup.
The tens of billions of dollars being spent
on groundwater pollution problems in the
U.S. has made it the number one priority
among environmental issues. In Europe, over
$5 billion per year is being spent to
reverse the current damage done by
groundwater pollution and to prevent
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Who
Should Attend
The course is designed for groundwater
hydrologists, geologists, engineers, chemists,
environmental scientists, state/federal
regulators, project managers,
compliance/regulatory program managers for
industry and technical experts.
The emphasis is on acquiring an extensive working
knowledge of the concepts, principles and
professional practices underlying groundwater
pollution, hydrology and remediation. Although
some
areas are necessarily surveyed in the interest of
time, technical depth is the norm in the majority
of sessions. Like any short course, some
experience is helpful but not necessary as the
course teaches basic principles before dealing
with more advanced topics. The course succeeds in
significantly enhancing the technical skills of
all the participants without losing the neophytes
and without boring those with 15 years of
practical experience. This is the highest rated
course in the industry - no course teaches so
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Groundwater
Short Courses
The widespread
interest in groundwater has seen the
offering of many
two- and three-day training courses dealing
with various aspects of the problem. There
are very few one-week courses. The
advantages of a longer course include time
to cover and absorb more aspects of this
expanding field and the opportunity for
in-depth technical learning. Groundwater
legislation, natural attenuation, risk
assessment, wellhead protection techniques,
monitoring equipment, DNAPL research,
remediation alternatives and applications of
computers have grown to such an extent in
the last several years that intensive one
week courses, with a few early evening
sessions, are needed to adequately cover all
of these new developments.
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Most groundwater
professionals prefer in-depth knowledge that they
can apply as soon as they return to work. They
also prefer a course notebook which is written and
carefully covered in a textbook fashion and which
will serve as a familiar guide or resource manual
after the course. For those who are willing to
take a week out of their busy schedules, the
course meets these preferences with unparalleled
technical information and applied knowledge.
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Course
Description
The course is the only one-week course being
offered in the U.S. or Europe which
comprehensively covers all aspects of groundwater
pollution and hydrology from theory to practice.
The instructors are recognized as the top six
leading experts and teachers in the field and
collectively have over 100 years of practical
experience. The course is the established standard
among groundwater training courses and for this
reason has consistently had the largest attendance
of all courses offered anywhere in groundwater.
Over 1,000 pages of lecture notes have been
written specifically for this course.
Practical aspects are particularly
emphasized through the study of illustrative
case histories of groundwater contamination
and remediation developed by Malcolm Pirnie,
Inc., and others. Based on the results of
several hundred projects, these lectures
stress a practical approach to cleanup which
is acclaimed by industry and regulators
alike.
One of the most widespread and difficult
problems in groundwater contamination and
remediation today is dense non-aqueous phase
liquids (DNAPLs). The University of Waterloo’s
industrial organic chemicals research
program, under the leadership of Dr. John
Cherry, is recognized as the leading program
in the world dealing with applied research
on assessment and remediation of DNAPLs. Dr.
Cherry will present the basic concepts
underlying the occurrence, behavior and
movement of DNAPLs in sedimentary deposits
and fractured rocks as well as the very
latest field and laboratory results dealing
with the difficult problem of DNAPL
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The course will also cover the latest theory and
applications of ASTM's RBCA (Risk Based Corrective
Action), including Monitored Natural Attenuation
and Tiers 1, 2 and 3 in assessing groundwater
contamination and establishing cleanup criteria.
Over 1000 slides are shown throughout the entire
course. Among groundwater professionals, the
Princeton Course is considered a must course of
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Schedule
The class will meet
daily from 8:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. and from
1:00 P.M to 4:30 P.M. Monday through Friday.
Monday extends until 5:50 P.M. Half-hour
breaks are at 9:30 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Due to
the enormous amount of material, three early
evening sessions will be held on Tuesday
(6:00 to 8:10 P.M.), Wednesday (6:00 to 8:10
P.M.) and Thursday (5:00 to 6:30 P.M.). The
Thursday evening session is a lecture on
remediation options for DNAPLs and is also
an open session with Professor Cherry where
participants may discuss particular problems
and/or the course material. The class ends
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Course
Topics
- Overview and
Introduction to Groundwater Pollution
and Hydrology
- Fundamental Concepts
of Groundwater Flow and Contamination
- Advanced Concepts
and Principles of Groundwater Flow, Fate
and Transport and Natural Attenuation
(Anisotropy, Refraction, Lenses,
Non-Horizontal Flow, Hydrodynamic
Conditions, Multi-Phase Partitioning,
Dispersion, Retardation, Biodegradation,
etc.
- Cleanup Goals,
Guidelines and Standards in the Current
Regulatory Context (RCRA, CERCLA, SARA,
and others)
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- Groundwater Monitoring: Fundamental
Principles, Data Quality Objectives,
Field/Laboratory Quality
Assurance and Quality Control Procedures,
Drilling Methods, Monitoring Well Designs,
Sampling Devices and Techniques, Preservation
and Decontamination Procedures, Data
Validation
and Interpretation
- Remediation Strategies for RCRA, Superfund
and Brownfield Sites; Risk Based Decision
Making; Use of Models in Technology Selection;
Fluid Flushing Technologies; Application of
Advanced Treatment Technologies to Aquifers
and Unsaturated Zones
- Illustrative Case Histories of Groundwater
Contamination, Cleanup and Management Costs
and
Aquifer Restoration Alternatives, including
Monitored Natural Attenuation, Bioremediation
and Permeable Reactive Barriers
- DNAPL's (Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids):
Occurrence, Movement and Implications with
Respect to Site Monitoring and Remediation in
Sedimentary Deposits and Fractured Rock;
Concepts Illustrated by Laboratory and Field
Experiments with Emphasis on Chlorinated
Solvents and Creosote
- LNAPL's (Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids,
BTEX and MTBE): Underground Storage
Tanks and Pipeline Leaks; Detection,
Assessment and Aquifer Remediation
Alternatives for
Petroleum Hydrocarbon Releases; ASTOM's RBCA
(Risk Based Corrective Action, Tiers 1,2,3)
and
Monitored Natural Attenuation For Petroleum
Hydrocarbons cleanup. The TRIAD approach: the
latest in streamlined site assessment
- Wellhead Protection under the Safe Drinking
Water Act Amendments: Theory and Practice
- Theory and Practice of Mathematical Modeling
in Groundwater PolIution and Hydrology:
Emphasis
on Practical Applications
- Pumping Tests in Confined, Leaky-Confined
and Water Table Aquifers to Determine Aquifer
Parameters; Slug Test Methods and Practices;
Laboratory and Field Permeameters; Borehole
Dilution and Flowmeters to Determine Vertical
Velocity Stratification
- Fundamental Concepts and Theory of Water and
Chemical Movement in the Unsaturated Zone;
Laboratory Methods and Field Equipment to
Characterize Soils and Sample
Water/Gases in the Vadose Zone
- Introduction to Popular Software Programs
and their Applications in Groundwater
Pollution and
Hydrology
- Field Techniques: Direct Push Methods,
Geophysical Methods, Soil Gas Sampling, Soil
and Hard Rock Sampling/Coring Techniques,
Multi-Level Samplers, Portable Gas,
Chromatographs, Mini-Piezometers, Seepage Pans
to Measure River/Lake Fluxes and Hydraulic
Conductivities, Dispersion Coefficient
Measurements in the Field, Gasoline Evaluation
Equipment, Expedited Site Characterization
Techniques, etc.
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Course
Materials and Continuing Education Units
Students will
receive over 1,000 pages of lecture notes in
an attractive binder. In addition, they will
be given a certificate of satisfactory
completion and qualify to receive 3.7
Continuing Education Units (CEUs). A record
is kept of these units and transcripts may
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Registration
and Course Fee
Early registration is strongly advised for
this popular course. Enrollment is limited
and applications will be accepted in the
order they are received. Please mail the
attached application form with check or
credit card information, purchase order or
training authorization. For those requiring
time to obtain authorization, we suggest
faxing the same application form with
payment to follow. Confirmed participants
will receive an acknowledgement letter. The
registration fee is $1,495 and is payable in
advance. It covers all course materials and
refreshment breaks. It does not include
meals and hotel room expenses. Please make
checks payable to Princeton Groundwater,
Inc. The full fee is due two weeks before
the first day of class unless prior
arrangements for invoicing have been made. This
fee will be fully refunded if cancellation
is received 2 weeks before the course,
thereafter 50% of the fee will be refunded.
Substitutions may always be made. Click
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Hotel
Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved at a
substantially reduced rate in both locations.
You must, however, make your reservation prior
to 1 month before the course and
identify yourself as being with the
Princeton Groundwater Course. On the East coast,
the course will be held at the Holiday Inn
International Drive Resort close to Disney World
in Orlando, FL; the rate is also good 5 days
before and after the
course; call them at (407) 351-3500. On the West
coast, the course will be held at the Hotel
Kabuki in San Francisco; call them at (415)
922-3200 or (800) 533-4567.
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