Grantee Research Project Results
2004 Progress Report: The Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments (CHSUE) Outreach Program
EPA Grant Number: R828771C007Subproject: this is subproject number 007 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R828771
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Center for the Study of Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment
Center Director: Hansel, Nadia
Title: The Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments (CHSUE) Outreach Program
Investigators: Alavi, Hedy
Institution: The Johns Hopkins University
EPA Project Officer: Aja, Hayley
Project Period: October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002 (Extended to September 30, 2007)
Project Period Covered by this Report: October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004
Project Amount: Refer to main center abstract for funding details.
RFA: Hazardous Substance Research Centers - HSRC (2001) Recipients Lists
Research Category: Hazardous Waste/Remediation , Land and Waste Management
Objective:
The Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments (CHSUE) Outreach Program is a collaborative effort between the Johns Hopkins University (JHU, lead institution); the University of Connecticut (UConn), representing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1; the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), representing EPA Region 2; and the University of Maryland (UMd) and Morgan State University (MSU), representing EPA Region 3. The objective of the Outreach Program is to transfer knowledge and technology resulting from the research projects and expertise of the principal investigators and technical staff to communities with environmental contamination throughout the Regions.
Progress Summary:
The outreach activities being conducted by the CHSUE are distributed among the partnering institutions to respond more appropriately to the local needs across the large geographical area represented by EPA Regions 1, 2, and 3. The interdisciplinary and multimedia nature of Brownfields problems demands a diverse array of scientific talent and facilities. The affiliations and expertise of the participants in the Outreach Program are detailed below:
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (Lead Institution; EPA Region 3)
- Director: Edward Bouwer (environmental engineering, bioremediation, engineering microbiology)
- Associate Director: Hedy Alavi (environmental engineering, hazardous and solid waste management)
- Ralph Lightner (environmental restoration, waste management)
- Erik Rifkin (human health and ecological risk assessment, risk communication)
University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland (EPA Region 3)
- Barbara Sattler (environmental health nursing)
- Robyn Gilden (environmental health nursing)
- Rebecca Clouse
- Mary Rosso
Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland (EPA Region 3)
- Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein (chemical engineering, hazardous waste management, bioremediation)
- Guangming Chen (risk assessment, experimental design and statistics)
- Sedley Williams (soil chemistry, water quality analysis, environmental assessment, GIS)
- Bheem Kattel (industrial engineer, occupational ergonomics and safety)
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey (EPA Region 2)
- Director: Fred Ellerbush (environmental engineering, hazardous and solid waste management, risk assessment, outreach)
- Director: James Mack (environmental management, site characterization and remediation)
- Executive Director: Daniel Watts (environmental management and chemistry, green manufacturing, sustainability)
- Gerard McKenna (community outreach, characterization methods, technology transfer, training)
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut (EPA Region 1)
- Christopher Perkins (environmental monitoring and assessment, environmental toxicology and risk, risk communication)
- Kevin Hood (public health, facilitation, community outreach)
- Amine Dahmani (remediation, site assessment, Brownfields policy)
The principal efforts of the Outreach Program include two distinct but interrelated components: Technical Outreach Services for Communities (TOSC) and Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB). The goal of TOSC is to provide technical assistance and education to communities affected by hazardous waste and to assist them with the restoration of their environments and neighborhoods. The objective of TAB is to assist municipal officials, developers, and community groups with meeting the challenges of sustainable Brownfields redevelopment by providing education and technical assistance on the application of advanced science and technology.
The outreach activities during the period of October 1, 2003, to September 30, 2004, include 35 projects geographically distributed across EPA Regions 1, 2, and 3 (see Table 1). Nineteen projects are allocated under TOSC, and 20 projects are allocated under TAB, as shown in Table 1. A listing of the communities for the TOSC and TAB projects appears in Table 2. The listing in Table 2 is organized by EPA Region. The TOSC and TAB efforts include review of site characterization documents and remedial plans, review of hydrogeological data, workshops on Brownfields legislation and issues and remedial options for waste sites, training in redevelopment of Brownfield sites and former industrial areas, and communicating health effects for contaminants and information on health monitoring.
Table 1. CHSUE Summary of Outreach Projects—October 1, 2003, Through September 30, 2004
EPA Region |
TOSC |
TAB |
Total |
I |
5 |
6 |
11 |
II |
9 |
4 |
13 |
III |
5 |
10 |
15 |
Total |
19 |
20 |
39 |
Table 2. Summary of CHSUE Outreach Projects
EPA Region |
Project Title/Community/Location |
TAB/TOSC |
I |
Aberjona River/Industri-Plex Superfund Site; Woburn, Massachusetts | TOSC |
I |
Ninigret Park; Charlestown, Rhode Island | TAB |
I |
Newhall Coalition; Hamden, Connecticut | TOSC |
I |
Mallory Hat Factory; Danbury, Connecticut | TAB |
I |
Massachusetts Military Reservation; Cape Cod (several towns), Massachusetts | TOSC |
I |
Regional Growth Partnership; New Haven, Connecticut (project closed during this period) | TAB |
I |
Coltsville Redevelopment Project; Hartford, Connecticut (project closed during this period) | TAB |
I |
Rocky Hill; Connecticut | TAB |
I |
Roosevelt Mills; Vernon, Connecticut | TAB |
I |
Unnamed Fish and Game Club/ Lead Remediation; Connecticut | TOSC |
I |
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point; Connecticut | TOSC |
II |
Abbott School Districts; Statewide, New Jersey | TAB |
II |
Brownfields Environmental Solutions for Trenton; New Jersey | TAB |
II |
Bloomfield; New Jersey | TOSC |
II |
Buzby Landfill; Voorhees, New Jersey | TOSC |
II |
Camden, Fettersville Community Organization/Macedonia Historical Association; New Jersey | TOSC |
II |
Ft. Edwards; New York | TOSC |
II |
Heart of Camden; Camden, New Jersey | TAB |
II |
Ironbound Community Corporation; Newark, New Jersey | TOSC |
II |
Long Branch Coal Gasification; Long Branch, New Jersey | TOSC |
II |
Martin-Aaron; Camden, New Jersey | TOSC |
II |
Ford Avenue Redevelopment Project; Milltown, New Jersey | TAB |
II |
New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal;Statewide, New Jersey | TOSC |
II |
Coalition for Clean Air During Construction at Liberty Harbor, North | TOSC |
III |
Lamond-Riggs Park; Washington, DC | TOSC |
III |
Metachem; Delaware City, Delaware | TOSC |
III |
Hamilton Park; New Castle, Delaware | TOSC |
III |
Brooklyn/Curtis Bay—Potee-Garrett Street and Old Fairfield Sites;Baltimore, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Highway Petroleum Abandoned Gas Station; Cumberland, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Former Baltimore Transformer and Coil Brownfield; Elkridge, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Parcel “G” Brownfield Sites; Frederick, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Central Chemical Superfund Site; Hagerstown, Maryland | TOSC |
III |
Middle East; Baltimore, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Park Heights; Baltimore, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Brown Derby Abandoned Gas Station; Princess Anne, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Lester’s Garage Abandoned Gas Station; Salisbury, Maryland | TAB |
III |
Woodberry; Baltimore, Maryland | TOSC |
III/V |
Railroad Roundhouse; Newburg, Missouri | TAB |
III |
Pen Arygl Borough; Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania | TAB |
New Initiative
In September 2003, the CHSUE prepared a proposal for EPA that described a plan to provide additional Training and Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TTAB). This proposal was selected for funding, and the CHSUE commenced with the following activities in summer 2004. The “training” component of this project provides knowledge on Brownfields issues to stakeholders through various methods, including classroom-style training, workshops, conferences, roundtables, and Internet communications. The “technical assistance” component guides stakeholders through a particular process or helps them understand complex Brownfields-related subject matter. Participants at each of the partnering institutions contribute to the proposed TTAB efforts. In EPA Region 1, collaborators at UConn are engaged in the following TTAB projects: (1) Ninigret Park (Charleston, RI); (2) Mallory Hat Factory (Danbury, CT); (3) Regional Growth Partnership (Bridgeport, CT); (4) Redevelopment of Contaminated Land (Stamford, CT); and (5) Hartford Police Shooting Range (Rocky Hills, CT). In EPA Region 2, collaborators at the NJIT are engaged in the following TTAB projects: (1) Area-Wide Assessment (Kingston, NY); (2) Task Force Training (Lackawanna, NY); (3) Institutional Controls Training (Newark, NJ); (4) New Jersey Brownfields Development Areas; (5) New Jersey School Construction; and (6) New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal. In EPA Region 3, collaborators at UMd and JHU are engaged in the following TTAB projects: (1) Community Leadership Training; (2) Community Involvement Training; (3) Health Care Provider Training; (4) Workshops on Risk Communication; (5) Workshops on Economics of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment; and (6) Technical Assistance and Technical Document Review. Collaborators at MSU are contributing to TTAB in EPA Region 3 via technical assistance to the Park Heights Reisterstown Road Corridor Coalition Community.
Future Activities:
The outreach activities of CHSUE will continue throughout EPA Regions 1, 2 and 3.
Journal Articles:
No journal articles submitted with this report: View all 10 publications for this subprojectSupplemental Keywords:
hazardous substances, hazardous waste, environmental contamination, Brownfields, remediation, risk assessment, environmental justice, technical outreach, technology transfer, urban environment, public health, toxics, exposure, cleanup, risk communication, assessment,, RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, PHYSICAL ASPECTS, Waste, Health Risk Assessment, Risk Assessments, Brownfields, Hazardous Waste, Physical Processes, Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecology and Ecosystems, Hazardous, outreach material, brownfield sites, environmental hazards, contaminant transport, contaminant dynamics, environmental justice, risk assessment , exposure, human exposure, web site development, technology transfer, urban environment, outreach and education, human health risk, technical outreach, community support, hazardous substance contaminationRelevant Websites:
Progress and Final Reports:
Original AbstractMain Center Abstract and Reports:
R828771 Center for the Study of Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R828771C001 Co-Contaminant Effects on Risk Assessment and Remediation Activities Involving Urban Sediments and Soils: Phase II
R828771C002 The Fate and Potential Bioavailability of Airborne Urban
Contaminants
R828771C003 Geochemistry, Biochemistry, and Surface/Groundwater Interactions
for As, Cr, Ni, Zn, and Cd with Applications to Contaminated Waterfronts
R828771C004 Large Eddy Simulation of Dispersion in Urban Areas
R828771C005 Speciation of chromium in environmental media using capillary
electrophoresis with multiple wavlength UV/visible detection
R828771C006 Zero-Valent Metal Treatment of Halogenated Vapor-Phase Contaminants in SVE Offgas
R828771C007 The Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments (CHSUE) Outreach Program
R828771C008 New Jersey Institute of Technology Outreach Program for EPA Region II
R828771C009 Urban Environmental Issues: Hartford Technology Transfer and Outreach
R828771C010 University of Maryland Outreach Component
R828771C011 Environmental Assessment and GIS System Development of Brownfield Sites in Baltimore
R828771C012 Solubilization of Particulate-Bound Ni(II) and Zn(II)
R828771C013 Seasonal Controls of Arsenic Transport Across the Groundwater-Surface Water Interface at a Closed Landfill Site
R828771C014 Research Needs in the EPA Regions Covered by the Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments
R828771C015 Transport of Hazardous Substances Between Brownfields and the Surrounding Urban Atmosphere
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.
Project Research Results
- Final Report
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- Original Abstract
Main Center: R828771
108 publications for this center
20 journal articles for this center