Course Overview
This course introduces students to the third major process in contaminated site management: site remediation and risk assessment. Focusing on the role of the site investigator, the course promotes a scientific approach for evaluating and selecting options to manage site contamination including treatment, removal or containment. This course focuses specifically on toxicological principles of risk assessment, and on the evaluation and design processes for site remediation.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in EENG 8771
Credits
1.0
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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 contaminated site remediation plans.
- Identify the appropriate sections in the Contaminated Sites Regulations.
- Locate the various protocols and guidance documents that apply to remediation plans.
- Describe the elements that comprise a remediation plan and the various engineering aspects of contaminated site restoration.
- Evaluate criteria for selecting and applying remediation processes.
- Explain the use of remedial screening charts, feasibility analyses, cost analysis, pilot studies, and using different remedial strategies in tandem.
- Compare and contrast the basic in-situ and ex-situ remediation technologies.
- Discuss excavation and replacement as a remedial strategy.
- Describe site engineering aspects such as groundwater control, site management and disposal issues.
- Discuss soil vapor extraction (SVE) and air sparging (AS) techniques.
- Describe what contaminants are suitable for applying SVE and AS.
- Discuss the application of bioremediation in site cleanup.
- Explain how bioremediation can be used either ex-situ or in-situ.
- Explain when risk assessments should be considered for the management of contaminated sites.
- Describe the elements that comprise a risk assessment and the necessary data to support risk assessment.
- Apply risk assessment methodology in analyzing case study data.
- Generate a remediation plan for a contaminated site study.
- Plan the basic steps to accomplish the remediation.
- Describe how the technology will be effective at the site.
- Design a contaminated site monitoring system.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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