Events and Activities

2012 May 16-17, 2012 - SMWG Sponsor Forum, Newark, NJ May 15-16, 2012 - SMWG Members Meeting, Newark, NJ Ongoing - Follow-up on proposed EPA Directive Ongoing - Preparations for webinar of the Sediment Remediation Training Course with U.S. EPA and others Ongoing - Follow-up re: U.S. EPA's training and implementation of U.S. EPA's Contaminated Sediment Management Guidance

2011 Oct. 5-6, 2011 - SMWG Sponsor Forum, Philadelphia, PA Oct. 4-5, 2011 - SMWG Members Meeting - Philadelphia, PA July 13, 2011 - Meeting with U.S. EPA OSRTI representatives re: followup on opportunities identified at the USACE/SMWG Workshop, Working Toward A New Contaminated Sediment Site Paradigm Mar. 22, 2011 - Meeting with U.S. EPA OSRTI representatives re: EPA's proposed Directive on Interim RODs and proposed cleanup levels Feb. 8-10, 2011 - Steering Committee member and participant in Battelle's 6th International Contaminated Sediment Conference, New Orleans, LA Ongoing - Preparations for webinar of the Sediment Remediation Training Course with U.S. EPA and others Ongoing - Follow-up re: U.S. EPA's training and implementation of U.S. EPA's Contaminated Sediment Management Guidance Ongoing - Drafting a technical guidance document re: sediment stability assessment at contaminated sediment sites and incorporating the results into a risk management framework

2010

October 5-6, 2010 - SMWG Members Meeting - Green Bay, WI

October 6-7, 2010 - SMWG Sponsor Forum - Green Bay, WI

April 13-14, 2010 - The Alpha and The Omega and Points In Between Conference (The Beginning and The End) - Chicago, IL - with U.S. EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ERDC

April 15, 2010 - SMWG Members Meeting - Chicago, IL

Ongoing - Preparations for webinar of the Sediment Remediation Training Course with U.S. EPA and others

Ongoing - Follow-up re: U.S. EPA's training and implementation of U.S. EPA's Contaminated Sediment Management Guidance

Ongoing - Follow-up re: PCB Disposal Rule - characterization issue

Ongoing - Drafting a technical guidance document re: sediment stability assessment at contaminated sediment sites and incorporating the results into a risk management framework

2009 Feb. 3-5, 2009 - Steering Committee member and participant in 5th International Contaminated Sediment Conference, Jacksonville, FL April 28-29, 2009 - SMWG Contaminated Sediment Management Symposium with U.S. EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ERDC, Alexandria, Virginia April 29-30, 2009 - SMWG Members Meeting, Alexandria, VA Sept. 1-2, 2009 - participate in Mental Modeling Workshop organized by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with U.S. EPA Sept. 29-30, 2009 - SMWG Sponsor Forum, Saratoga Springs, NY Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2009 - SMWG Members Meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY Ongoing - Preparations for webinar of the Sediment Remediation Training Course with U.S. EPA and others Ongoing - Follow-up re: U.S. EPA's training and implementation of U.S. EPA's Contaminated Sediment Management Guidance Ongoing - Follow-up re: PCB Disposal Rule - characterization issue Ongoing - Drafting a technical guidance document re: sediment stability assessment at contaminated sediment sites and incorporating the results into a risk management framework TO VIEW ACTIVITIES FROM 1999 - 2006, FOLLOW THIS LINK

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Major Contaminated Sediment Site Database Reports

 

Events and Activities (continued)

2008

Jan. 8-10, 2008 - Optimizing Decision-Making and Remediation at Complex Sediment Sites, New Orleans, LA - Co-sponsor with U.S. Army Corps (WES), U.S. Navy and U.S. EPA

January 2008 - Submitted comments on draft Great Lakes Bi-National Toxics Strategy Annual Report 2007

February, 2008 - Co-author on "4Rs of Environmental Dredging: Resuspension, Release, Residual and Risk"

April 29 - May 1, 2008 - SMWG Sponsor Forum and Spring Meeting, Kalamazoo, MI

July 2008 – Acted as peer reviewer for DOD's draft Monitored Natural Recovery at Contaminated Sediment Sites Guidance

July 25, 2008 - Meeting in Washington, D.C. with Susan Bodine, U.S. EPA Asst. Administrator for OSWER, Jim Woolford, Chief of OSTRI, and members of HQ OSW staff

Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2008 - SWMG Sponsor Forum and Fall Meeting, Houston, TX

October 20-23, 2008 – Participant in the 24th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Ongoing - Followup re: PRP eligibility for Great Lakes Legacy Act funds (October, 2008 - GLLA reauthorized and amended)

Ongoing – Steering Committee member for the 5th International Contaminated Sediment Conference (Feb. 2-5, 2009), Jacksonville, FL

Ongoing - Follow-up re: U.S. EPA's training and implementation of U.S. EPA's Contaminated Sediment Management Guidance

Ongoing - Follow-up re: PCB Disposal Rule - characterization issue

Ongoing - Drafting a technical guidance document re: sediment stability assessment at contaminated sediment sites and incorporating the results into a risk management framework

2007

Jan. 22-25, 2007 - Steering committee member and participant in 4th International Contaminated Sediment Conference, Savannah, GA

Jan. 2007 - Submitted comments in support of proposed amendments to Fox River ROD and its application of the U.S. EPA's Contaminated Sediment Management Guidance

Jan. 2007 - Acted as peer reviewer for U.S. EPA's Monitored Natural Recovery Technical Resource Document

Jan. 2007 - Submitted comments on draft Great Lakes Bi-national Toxics Strategy Annual Report 2006

March 2007 - Acted as peer reviewer for NAS Committee on Dredging Effectiveness report:  Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites:  Assessing the Effectiveness

May 2-4, 2007 - SMWG Sponsor Forum and Spring Meeting, Ashtabula, OH

Sept. 5-7, 2007 - Co-sponsor of Sediment Remediation Training Course:  How Do You Select and Design Options? with U.S. EPA, EPA Hazardous Substance Research Center South/Southwest and Oregon DEQ in Portland, OR

Sept. 25-27, 2007 - SMWG Sponsor Forum and Fall Meeting, San Francisco area, CA

Oct. 2007 - Submitted comments highlighting issues with the Draft Focused Feasibility Study for the Passaic River

Oct. 29-31, 2007 - Co-sponsor of Sediment Remediation Training Course:  How Do You Select and Design Options? with U.S. EPA, EPA Hazardous Substance Research Center South/Southwest in Atlanta, GA

Ongoing - Follow-up re: 4R's Workshop

Ongoing - Follow-up re: U.S. EPA's training and implementation of U.S. EPA's Contaminated Sediment Management Guidance

Ongoing - Follow-up re: PCB Disposal Rule - characterization issue

Ongoing - Drafting a technical guidance document re: sediment stability assessment at contaminated sediment sites and incorporating the results into a risk management framework

Ongoing - Planning, participating and co-sponsoring (along with U.S. Army Corps (WES), U.S. Navy, U.S. EPA - 4th Joint Conference - January 8-10, 2008 - New Orleans, LA

Ongoing - Participating in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement review of sediment issues

Ongoing - Follow-up re: Great Lakes Collaboration Initiative funding and other issues

Ongoing - Follow-up re: PRP eligibility for Great Lakes Legacy Act funds