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SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION: PROGRESS AND RESULTS
Citation:
Koglin, E N. SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION: PROGRESS AND RESULTS. Presented at 50th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PittCon `98), Pittsburgh, PA, December 19, 1998.
Description:
The Site Characterization and Monitoring Technology Pilot of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV) has been engaged in verification activities since the fall of 1994 (U.S. EPA, 1997). The purpose of the ETV is to promote the acceptance and use of innovative environmental technologies by providing credible performance data to purchasers and users of environmental technologies. Each of the 12 pilots operating under ETV is responsible for managing the demonstration, evaluation, and verification of the technologies falling under their purview. Each pilot is also responsible for managing an aggressive outreach program to get performance information to the people who make decisions about the use of innovative environmental technologies.
The Site Characterization and Monitoring Technology Pilot has conducted seven demonstrations. The technology categories demonstrated include: cone penetrometer-deployed sensors, field portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, field portable gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers, soil gas sampling devices, polychlorinated biphenyl detection techniques, techniques for measuring volatile organic compounds in ground water, and decision support software systems. To date, 30 technology developers have participated in the program and 35 technologies have been verified.
This Pilot has the distinction of having been the first to plan, execute, and report on technologies participating in the verification process. There have been many accomplishments, but there have been setbacks and problems. A few of them will be presented along with their solutions.
The Pilot is presently in the process of verifying explosive detection technologies, ground-water sampling devices, total petroleum hydrocarbon test kits, sediment sampling devices, and geophysical instruments for the detection of buried objects. Information about each of these verifications will also be presented.