Pre-Conference Workshops
Sunday, March 4, 2007
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (half-day)
Inventory Control: A New Look at an Old Method of Leak Detection
Presented by: Marcel Moreau, Marcel Moreau Associates
This workshop is full.
Inventory control has been used for fuel management and leak detection purposes for many decades. While simple in concept, the intricacies of interpreting inventory control data have led most tank owners and regulators to throw up their hands in despair. But armed with enough data, a few simple concepts, and electronic spreadsheet and graphing software, understanding what inventory control records are telling you is within the grasp of most anyone willing to pay attention.
Audience:
This workshop is for storage system owners, operators, and managers as well as regulatory personnel who want to decipher the tales told by inventory control records. LUST folks and insurance personnel who need to determine the timing and magnitude of leaks will also learn some valuable tools to help answer these questions. (download a more detailed description)
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (half-day)
High Resolution Site Characterization and Integration with Environmental Forensics
Presented by: Ileana Rhodes and Curt Stanley of Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc.
Matthew Small, US EPA, Region 9
This half-day course will provide a brief description of petroleum hydrocarbon chemistry and some techniques used to identify these types of materials in environmental media. An actual case study will illustrate the capabilities and limitations of the different techniques and approaches in developing multiple lines of evidence.
Topics: This workshop includes petroleum hydrocarbon chemistry and advanced site investigation tools (e.g. LIF, soil vapor analysis, NAPL characterization, etc.). Audience: This workshop is for regulators, environmental consultants and industry.
$15 fee. Select this option when registering for the conference. No on-site registrations will be accepted.
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (full-day)
Soil Data Acquisition and Interpretation Workshop
Presented by: Frank Vernon and Tom Lains, Oklahoma Corporation Commission
This is a 8-hour, hands-on workshop designed for environmental professionals and technicians to learn how to use an innovative soil sampling and soil vapor data collection technique to obtain consistent field soil vapor data and lab analysis. Also covered are vapor data interpretation and the use of computer software to achieve better site assessment and site remediation approaches.
Audience: This workshop is for environmental professionals and technicians.
Topics: Need for accurate sampling; Protocols for collecting sleeved soil cores and soil vapor profiling; Soil data interpretation; 3D analysis of the source zone; Computer modeling techniques; Alternative EPA 5035 soil sample preservation method; and Soil clean-up confirmation tool.
Supplies:
Participants should bring a simple calculator to use during the hands-on exercises. Participants will be provided with all other materials.
$25 fee. Select this option when registering for the conference. No on-site registrations will be accepted.
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (full-day)
LNAPL in the Subsurface: Recent Developments, New Conceptual Models, and New Tools
Presented by: Mark Adamski (BP America), Randall Charbeneau UT Austin and Jeff Kuhn, Montana DEQ.
This training will be particularly useful to regulators who evaluate work plans and review recommendations for LNAPL site remediation and closure.
Topics covered in this 6 hour course include: LNAPL basics, Advanced topics on multi-phase flow and impact on endpoints, Peculiar LNAPL behavior and LNAPL in fine-grained soils, LNAPL saturations/observations observed in the field, Understanding the importance of residual saturation, Field methods for characterizing LNAPL sites, Case studies highlighting the application of new LNAPL concepts to site management, Demonstration of the new API model for LNAPL distribution and recovery (API-LDRM)
$25 fee. Select option during registration process. No on-site registrations will be accepted.
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (full-day)
3-D Site Characterization Techniques
Presented by: Todd Halihan, Oklahoma State University
This all-day course examines the range of field data acquisition and back-end computational methods/software options for site visualization in 3-D. Case studies from actual LUST sites will be used.
Discussion will include both the technical aspects related to using 3-D site characterization tools as well as the policy benefits. Additionally, we will cover the pitfalls that may be expected when using these approaches.
This course is for LUST technical project personnel and program/policy managers.
$25 fee. Select option during registration process. No on-site registrations will be accepted.