Course Overview
This course highlights the importance of site characterization in terms of soil, water and sediment, as an essential and integral part of the overall management of contaminated sites. It also focuses on the role of the site investigator, and on a phased planning approach to obtaining proper data to characterize site contamination, evaluate remedial alternatives and assess risks.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Discuss the elements within the Contaminated Sites Regulations that apply to site investigation procedures.
- Describe the historical progression of environmental regulations.
- Identify the appropriate sections in the Contaminated Sites Regulations.
- Locate the various protocols and guidance documents that apply to site investigations.
- Apply the concepts of non-invasive assessment techniques to site assessment.
- Discuss the application of geophysics and vapor surveys to site assessment.
- Demonstrate when non-invasive techniques are more appropriate than invasive techniques.
- Illustrate the application of invasive techniques used in site characterization.
- Describe the function and design of monitoring well construction and installation.
- Discuss soil and water sampling protocols and collection techniques.
- Identify the correct equipment that is appropriate for use in the collection of environmental data.
- Apply statistics relevant to sample location and analysis of analytical data.
- Identify current parametric and nonparametric statistical tools such as means, variance, hypothesis tests compared to boxplots or histograms.
- Interpret analytical data.
- Plan sampling programs based on biased versus unbiased applications.
- Design site investigations based on evaluation of field data.
- Determine soil sample locations and groundwater monitoring locations.
- Analyze site information to aid in planning field data collection.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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