Session: Cost-Effective Tools for Investigations and Remedial Applications: Direct-Push Technology


Wednesday, December 5, 2007: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
224 C/D (Orange County Convention Center)
Cost-Effective Tools for Investigations and Remedial Applications: Direct-Push Technology - Workshop, 2.5 CEPs
An efficient, cost-effective approach for environmental professionals to rapidly investigate site’s stratigraphy, depositional environment, and contaminant distribution can be implemented by the utilization of direct-push technology (DPT). DPT reduces the period of time required to conduct site investigations and can accelerate the design of a ground water monitoring or remedial system. This workshop will provide an overview of DPT, including cone penetrometer testing (CPT), soil and ground water samplers, laser induced fluorescence (LIF) including ROST, and the membrane interface probe (MIPs) equipment, operations, measurements, sampling, calibration, and interpretation of data . Examples from investigations and remedial design using DPT will be used to demonstrate the applicability of these methods. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own DPT data about which they have questions to discuss with the instructors and other course attendees.
Workshop Presenters:	Bruce Manchon, PG, Arcadis BBL John Sciacca, RG, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Inc.