Adaptive Site Management at Complex Sites
Wednesday, August 7, 2019: 11:50 a.m.
John Price
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Washington Department of Ecology, Richland, WA
Elisabeth Hawley
,
Geosyntec Consultants, Oakland, CA
Eric Suchomel, Ph.D., PE (CA)
,
Geosyntec Consultants, Oakland, CA
Rula Deeb, Ph.D., BCEEM
,
Geosyntec Consultants, Oakland, CA
An Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC) team recently prepared technical and regulatory guidance on “Remediation Management of Complex Sites”. This presentation will highlight the contents of the guidance with a focus on adaptive site management as a process for managing remediation at complex sites. Other relevant initiatives, including EPA’s pilot program on adaptive management, will also be summarized.
The ITRC guidance can help regulators and project managers understand and apply adaptive site management principles and develop a long-term site closure strategy at complex sites. The guidance describes site challenges and how to integrate them into a conceptual site model, conduct a remediation potential assessment, integrate adaptive site management concepts into a remedy design or remedy transition, set interim objectives and performance metrics, prepare components of a long-term management plan, and set decision criteria for adjusting, optimizing or reevaluating remedy performance. Numerous case studies describe real-world applications of remediation and remediation management at complex sites. The guidance also describes techniques for effective stakeholder engagement at complex sites.
John Price, Washington Department of Ecology, Richland, WA
John Price III is the Tri-Party Agreement Section Manager for the Washington Department of Ecology in Richland, Washington. John has worked with the Nuclear Waste Program since 2000. John administers the Hanford site Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order, and is his program's tribal liaison to three tribal nations with ceded rights at the Hanford site. He supervises a ten-person team including five hazardous waste compliance inspectors and two Natural Resource Damage Assessment specialists. He has over 35 years experience cleaning up radioactively contaminated sites in 17 states. John was an ITRC team member for Determining Cleanup Goals at Radioactively Contaminated Sites: Case Studies (2002), and since 2014 has been a team leader for Remediation Management of Complex Sites. John earned a bachelor's degree in Hydrology from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona in 1979 and holds Washington licenses in Geology and Hydrogeology.
Elisabeth Hawley, Geosyntec Consultants, Oakland, CA
Elisabeth Hawley is a Senior Consultant at Geosyntec Consultants in Oakland, California. Since 2001, she has worked in consulting on environmental remediation projects with a particular focus on emerging contaminants, sustainability analyses and remedial strategies at complex sites. Elisabeth has prepared guidance documents and conducted research on technical impracticability assessments and alternative groundwater remedial strategies for the Air Force, Army and ESTCP. Elisabeth is a member of the ITRC Remediation Management of Complex Sites Team and was a former participant and trainer for the ITRC Green and Sustainable Remediation Team. She earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2000 and a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. Elisabeth is a professional engineer in California.
Eric Suchomel, Ph.D., PE (CA), Geosyntec Consultants, Oakland, CA
Eric Suchomel is a Principal Engineer with Geosyntec Consultants in Oakland, California. Since accepting a position with Geosyntec in 2006, Dr. Suchomel's practice has focused primarily on the management of large-scale, complex chlorinated solvent sites, as well as the development and demonstration of innovative technologies for the remediation of emerging contaminants such as 1,2,3-trichloropropane. His doctoral research focused on evaluating reductions in mass flux and discharge downgradient of DNAPL source zones following partial source zone mass removal and assessing in situ biological reductive dechlorination of residual DNAPL source zones. He received a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa; and master's and doctoral degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2004 and 2006 from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of California.
Rula Deeb, Ph.D., BCEEM, Geosyntec Consultants, Oakland, CA
Rula Deeb is a Senior Principal Civil and Environmental Consultant based in California with more than 25 years of experience focused on private practice and academia addressing the cross-media fate and transport of contaminants, and the remediation of complex soil and groundwater sites impacted by non-aqueous phase liquids. She is internationally recognized for her industry leadership on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and other emerging contaminants in natural and treatment environments. She was the program advisor for the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC) team on remediation management of complex sites.
