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Description: Course material developed in conjunction with WA Department of Ecology This comprehensive one-day course will familiarize you with how to develop cleanup standards for sediment cleanup sites and demonstrate compliance after cleanup. Emphasis will be placed on new sections of the revised Sediment Management Standards, including freshwater standards, approaches for bioaccumulative chemicals, use of natural and regional background as cleanup standards, assessing human health and ecological risk, back-calculating to sediment standards using biota-sediment accumulation factors, and more. The Ecology spreadsheet tool for calculating sediment cleanup standards will be demonstrated. Special cases will be reviewed, such as wetlands, wood waste sites, and mining sites, along with Ecology-approved methods for developing site-specific cleanup standards. Challenging chemicals such as dioxins/furans and PCBs will be discussed, including new approaches for assessing risk and calculating cleanup levels currently under development for these chemicals. Policy and compliance issues will also be covered, including selection of a site-specific cleanup standard within the allowable range, points of compliance for benthic vs. bioaccumulative chemicals, and the different statistical methods used to evaluate compliance for benthic and bioaccumulative chemicals. Q&A sessions will be provided throughout the day for any additional questions you may have. *Note: Please bring a laptop computer for demonstration of the cleanup standards Spreadsheet
Intended Audience: This course is intended for environmental professionals seeking an improved understanding of the establishment of cleanup levels under SMS.
Continuing Education Units: 0.70 CEUs
Course Topics
Material will center on Cleanup standards, and What's new in the 2013 SMS - SMS cleanup standards framework
- Simple sites vs. complex sites
- Chemical and biological benthic standards
- Site-specific cleanup standards
- Bioaccumulation-based standards
- Dioxins/furans, PCB congeners, and PAH TEQs
- Background-based standards and PQLs
- Human health and ecological risk assessment
- Biota-sediment accumulation factors
- Sediment cleanup standards calculation spreadsheet
- Establishing points/areas and depths of compliance
- Demonstrating compliance with benthic and bioaccumulative standards
About the Instructor
 Dr. Michelsen is an environmental scientist and geochemist with over 25 years of experience in aquatic site investigation and cleanup, regulatory support and permitting, expert witness and litigation support, and alternative dispute resolution. She has provided technical assistance and oversight of investigations and cleanups at more than 70 contaminated sediment sites in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California, and British Columbia, and has developed technical guidance and training for federal and state agencies, consultants, and scientists. Specialty areas include development of sediment and tissue quality guidelines, and development and large‐scale implementation of regulatory programs for aquatic environments, including the Sediment Management Standards (SMS) in Washington State, and the Sediment Evaluation Framework for managing dredged material in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
What to Bring
Please bring a laptop computer for demonstration of the cleanup standards Spreadsheet Drinks and snacks will be provided each day. Lunch will be on your own.
Billing Information
In order to guarantee a space in a course, the tuition must be paid in full TWO WEEKS before the first day of the course by either check or credit card. State and government agencies paying with a purchase order are allowed payment under the two-week time frame if a copy of the purchase order is received by NWETC.
If You Need to Cancel
Cancellations*-
With 31 or more days notice, we will offer a 100% refund or credit towards a future course. The credit is good for one year and may be applied to any course.
- With 30-8 days notice, we will offer a course credit towards a future course. The credit is good for one year and may be applied to any course.
- With fewer than 8 days notice, there is no course credit available
*Please note that attendee replacement is welcome at any time
Disability Accommodations
Disability Accommodations:To request disability accommodations, please contact us at info@nwetc.org or 425-270-3274 at least 30 days prior to the event.
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