PFAS Conference: Call for Papers

Groundwater in the PFAS Era: Stressors, Protection, and Compliance

April 16-17, 2024
Tucson , AZ

The chemistry and environmental behavior of PFAS, combined with recent and proposed regulatory actions and toxicological uncertainties, create significant challenges for groundwater management and protection. This National Ground Water Association (NGWA) conference provides a forum to share best science and state-of-the-practice approaches to address PFAS contamination while maintaining groundwater’s essential roles for drinking water, agriculture, environmental, and other purposes. The conference provides an opportunity to share lessons learned in addressing this high-profile and rapidly evolving issue. Abstracts are solicited on these general topics:

Regulations and Risk Management

• Risks of PFAS compared to other toxic substances in groundwater
• Evolving regulatory criteria – practicability of attainment and scientific basis
• PFAS toxicology
• Groundwater protection and risk management
• Orchestrating broad-based programs for cleanup and management

PFAS in the Hydrologic Cycle

• PFAS in soils and the vadose zone
• Biosolids and municipal landfill leachate
• Effects of groundwater/surface-water interactions
• PFAS in precipitation
• Watershed scale strategies

PFAS and Managed Aquifer Recharge

• Water reuse
• Impacts on UIC Class V injection wells
• Stormwater as source water

Site Investigation

• Fate and transport complexities
• Role and impact of precursors
• Field techniques and innovation
• PFAS chemical forensics to identify different/multiple sources of PFAS contamination in groundwater plumes
• Determining ambient background

Remediation/Treatment

• Innovative remediation technology
• Disposal and destruction technologies, including cost
• In-situ remediation of PFAS in groundwater vs. aboveground treatment
• State actions progressing from monitoring and sampling to treatment and management

Abstracts are due through NGWA's electronic systems by 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, January 19, 2024 and must be submitted in sentence form and without bullet points on our website.

Titles should be limited to 100 characters or less and abstracts should be limited to 300 words or less.

We are accepting papers for 20-minute oral platform presentations and poster presentations. Please confim you are selecting the correct submission form below.

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