Cleary, Kavanaugh, Brownell,  Kueper,  Einarson, and Larson
This Course is approved by the Connecticut LEP Board for 40 hours of CEC credits
and the Massachusetts LSP Board for 41 hours of CEC credits!
Course Description
Princeton Groundwater's Remediation Course is the most comprehensive course on remediation available. It is taught in June (Las Vegas) and October (Miami). Every aspect of remediation is covered from three-dimensional hydrogeochemical characterization, through practical details of all remediation technologies, to computer-simulated remedial alternatives such as Natural Attenuation, Pump & Treat, Funnel & Gate, Interceptor Trenches and complete Hydraulic Containment using barriers and capping. The course also covers many essential topics which are not found in any other courses or books
Remediation Course
The course, however, assumes some technical background and experience in contamination problems. Those who have taken Princeton Groundwater's The Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology Course (see course above) should be well prepared as this course is the next step.

The objective of this course is to teach remediation from the key methodologies to collect hydrogeochemical data, through selecting and designing remediation systems based on geological and biological effects and air/water carriers. In addition, participants will use computers to simulate remediation hydrology, groundwater pathways, capture zones, mass transport, natural attenuation, and alternative remediation designs.
Who Should Attend
  • Remediation Experts
  • Groundwater Hydrologists
  • Geologists
  • Engineers
  • Chemists

 

  • Environmental Scientists
  • State/Federal Regulators
  • Project Managers
  • Compliance Program Managers
  • Industrial Site Owners


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Course Objective
The objective of this course is to teach remediation from the key methodologies to collect hydrogeochemical data, through selecting and designing remediation systems based on geological and biological effects and air/water carriers. In addition, participants will use computers to simulate remediation hydrology, groundwater pathways, capture zones, mass transport, natural attenuation, and alternative remediation designs.


What You Will Learn

  • Practical remediation strategies and options drawn from hundreds of case histories

  • The geological and hydrochemical factors applicable to remedial
    designs for cleaning up soil and groundwater

  • Field methods to fully characterize aquifers, source zones and plumes to allow selection and design of effective remedial measures and set achievable cleanup levels

  • Ability to select remediation systems based on variable hydrogeology, life cycle design, air/water carriers, biodegradation, and monitored natural attenuation for dissolved phase, light and dense non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs)

  • Strategic approach to cost effective remedial design

  • Hands-on experience with 2D and 3D computer simulations of flow and mass transport for applications in remediation strategies, design and field investigations. Natural attenuation simulations for use in Risk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA) studies



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The Remediation Course uniquely integrates the topics of heterogeneous geohydrology, aquifer / source / plume characterization, remediation
technologies / strategies / designs, and computer simulation software.
The result is the premier course on remediation.

Course Schedule
With some exceptions, the class generally meets daily from 8:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. and from 1:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. Monday through Thursday with half-hour coffee breaks at 9:30 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. and lunch from 11:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. After short breaks at 4:30 P.M., Monday extends to 6:00 P.M. and Tuesday extends to 7:00 P.M. Due to the exceptional amount of material, after a short break, the class on Wednesday goes to 6:00 P.M., followed by a one hour dinner break and additional lectures from 7:00 P.M. to 8:50 P.M. The formal part of the course ends on Thursday at 5:45 P.M. Friday is an optional hands-on computer laboratory session from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Students will be introduced to the practical, remediation applications of Visual Modflow, MT3D and the EPA/Air Force’s Bioscreen/Bioscreen-AT software packages.


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Course Topics

  • Fundamental and Advanced Concepts of Remediation Hydrogeology
  • Fundamental and Advanced Concepts of Fate and Transport
  • Field Methods to Determine Remediation Design Hydraulic Parameters
  • DNAPL and LNAPL Source Zones and Dissolved Plumes
  • Fate and Transport and Enhanced Natural Attenuation for Remediation of MTBE (In Situ and Ex Situ).
  • Flux-Based (Mass Discharge rates) Corrective Action and Remediation Vs. Risk-Based Correction Action (RBCA) Based on Monitoring Well Concentrations
  • The Remedial Investigation (RI)/Feasibility Study (FS) Process
  • Advanced 3D Site Characterization Field Methods
  • 2D vs. 3D Capture Zones of Contaminant Plumes
  • Strategic Approach to Cost Effective Remedial Design
  • Bioremediation: Pathways, Stoichiometry, Kinetics, Engineering Design for In-Situ Applications, Limitations and Natural Attenuation
  • Remediation and Control Using “Water As A Carrier”: The Proper Use of Pump and Treat Systems
  • Monitored Natural Attenuation: Limitations And Applications In Remediation
  • Remediation Using “Air As A Carrier”: Vapor Extraction Systems, Vacuum Enhanced Systems, Air Sparging Remediation Designs
  • Ex-Situ Treatment Technologies
  • Principles of Advanced Remediation Systems: Fracturing, Reactive Walls, Waterloo’s Funnel and Gate, Reactive Zones, Phytoremediation and Enhancements To The Basic Carrier Remediation Designs.
  • DNAPL Migration in Heterogeneous Deposits, and Fractured Hard Rock
  • Practical Design and Operation of Soil Vapor Extraction and Air Sparging Pilot Studies
  • Permeable Treatment Walls and In Situ Chemical Oxidation
  • Use of Water Flooding, Alcohol Flooding, and Thermal Technologies for NAPL Removal
  • Remediation Applications of the U.S.G.S.’s MODFLOW using Waterloo Hydrogeologic Inc.’s Visual MODFLOW Pro
  • Friday is An Optional Bonus Day (8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.)
    Hands-On Computer Modeling in Remediation Engineering

  • Hands-on Computer Simulation Exercises of Exposure Pathways, Capture Zones, Natural Attenuation, Remediation scenarios such as Pump & Treat, Trenches and Capping using: BiIOSCREEN-AT, MODFLOW AND MT3D
  • Please scroll down to see more details on the Free 8-Hour Modeling Mini-Course.
Course Fee: US$1,595
Course fees cover all course materials and refreshments breaks.
Course Materials and Continuing Education Units
Students will receive over 1,200 pages of lecture notes in an attractive binder. In addition, they will be given a certificate of satisfactory completion and qualify to receive 4.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). A record is kept of these units and transcripts may be requested at a later date.

Registration
Early registration is strongly advised for this popular course. Enrollment is limited and applications will be accepted in the order they are received. To enroll today, click here, or call (813) 964-0800. Please make checks payable to Princeton Groundwater, Inc. The full fee is due two weeks before the first day of class unless prior arrangements for invoicing have been made. This fee will be fully refunded if cancellation is received 2 weeks before the course, thereafter 50% of the fee will be refunded or the full amount applied to the next Remediation Course. Substitutions may always be made.

Hotel Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved at a substantially reduced rate. You must, however, make your reservation 1 month before the course and identify yourself as being with Princeton Groundwater’s Remediation Course. The October course is held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center in Miami, FL; The room block will be held until one month before the course--so you should get your reservations in early to get the special rate. After that date reservations will be taken on a space and rate available, call them at (305) 261-3800. The June course is held at the Orleans Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. For reservations, call them at (702) 365-7111.

BONUS COURSE:
8-hr. Optional Hands-on Computer Modeling of Contamination and Remediation Engineering and Design

FRIDAY (8-5:00 PM)

The remediation course formally ends at 5:45 pm on Thursday. Friday is an optional free day for those interested in an introduction to hands-on computer modeling of contamination and remediation engineering using the well known Numerical and Analytical software packages:

 

Schlumberger Water Services' Visual MODFLOW (including MT3D)

Bioscreen-AT (S.S. Papadopulos & Assoc, Inc., US EPA and US Air Force)

                  NO PREVIOUS MODELING EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

Friday Course Schedule:

8:00-9:15      Applied Remediation Modeling Lecture with An Illustrative
                      Case History. (Cleary)

9:15-10:00    Overviews of the Bioscreen-AT (Analytical Model), MODFLOW
                    
 and MT3D (Numerical Models) Hand-On Computer Modeling
                      Exercises. (Cleary)


10:00-10:30  Optional break

10:30-5:00      Hands-On Computer Modeling Exercises in Remediation
                      Engineering

   Hands-On Computer Modeling Exercises in Remediation Engineering

                 1.  BIOSCREEN-AT (The Corrected
                      Version of
EPA's Analytical
                      Transport Model) using as a
                      screening tool for risk-based
                      cleanups
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                 2. 
Drumco: Hands-on Computer
                      Simulation Exercise In Remediation
                      Modeling Using Schlumberger's
                      Numerical
Flow Model, Visual
                      Modflow,
to simulate various
                      methods of capturing or containing a
                      PCE dissolved phase plume (Pump &
                     Treat, Barrier Walls/Capping and an
                      Interceptor Trench)

                 3.  MT3D: an exercise in using
                     
MODFLOW and MT3D to build a Flow
                      and Transport model including
                      breakthrough curves and cleanup
                      using
Pump and Treat.

                      COURSE ENDS AT 5:00 P.M.

                                  

Princeton Groundwater, Inc. is not affiliated with Princeton University

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