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Unconventional contaminants NICOLE Network Spring Meeting & Workshop Manchester UK, 24-‐26 June 2015 Introduction The NICOLE network continually strives to develop and promote site specific risk based and cost effective management and remediation of contaminated land, optimized through careful consideration of the environmental, social and economic impacts and benefits in choosing the most appropriate management plan. The Manchester workshop aims to explore the application of this philosophy in the context of particular groups of contaminants that may be considered less ‘mainstream’ in terms of the nature of their occurrence or perceived impact on many industrial operations, or because our understanding is in the early stages of development, as we begin to explore these newly identified or ‘emerging’ contaminants. We therefore intend to use the spring workshop in Manchester UK to explore a range of these “Unconventional contaminants”, through both oral and/or poster sessions on the following: • Pharmaceutical and personal care products (including dioxane) • Per-‐ and poly-‐fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – otherwise referred to as Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs),
including contribution from the NICOLE Emerging Contaminants working group on PFOS. • Asbestos – investigation, risk assessment and novel techniques to remediate asbestos in the ground. • Challenging Metals – for example, chromium (VI), arsenic, molybdenum, antimony and rare earth
elements (REEs).
• Radionuclides and Radioactive substances, including naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM)
Supported by:
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Thursday 25 June 2015 CONFERENCE DAY 1 Venue: Humanities Bridgeford street, Oxford Road, The University of Manchester
08.30-‐09.00 Registration
OPENING SESSION Chair: Lucia Buvé, Chair of NICOLE SG
09.00-‐09.05 Opening and welcome Lucia Buvé, Chair of the NICOLE SG
09.05-‐09.15 Welcome to Manchester
Stephen Flint – Acting Dean of Engineering and Physical Sciences – University of Manchester
09.15-‐09.35 Update on NICOLE -‐-‐ Working Groups – by Working Group Leaders
09.35-‐10.20 NICOLE Technology Award -‐-‐ Introduction of Award Short List– Paul van Riet, Dow Chemicals (10
minutes) -‐-‐ 3 x Short List Presentations (10 minutes each)
10.20-‐10.45 Framing the workshop topic -‐ by Rick Parkman (AECOM & NICOLE OC Chair)
10.45-‐11.15 COFFEE BREAK in poster area
SESSION 2:TECHNICAL SESSION – INVITED SPEAKERS ON PFAS – SCOPE OF PROBLEM (Distribution, Magnitude, Policy), FATE & TRANSPORT Chair: Tomás Albergaria, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
11.30-‐11.50 Hans Slenders & Tessa Pancras (Arcadis NL) -‐ CONCAWE (EU) -‐ Poly-‐ and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): their use, properties and environmental issues
11.50-‐12.10 Niklas Törneman (Sweco Environment) -‐ PFAS investigations in Sweden and Norway and remedial methods and strategies
12.10-‐12.30 Chris Higgins (Colorado School of Mines, USA) -‐ Behavior of Perfluoralkyl Chemicals in Contaminated groundwater.
12.30-‐12.50 Dan Opdyke (Anchor Qea, Norway) – Bioaccumulation of PFOS in Freshwater Fish: Evolving Perspectives on an Emerging Contaminant and Implications for Risk Assessments
12.50-‐13.10 Questions & Discussion
13.10-‐14.00 LUNCH
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Thursday 25 June 2015 (continued) CONFERENCE DAY 1 Venue: Humanities Bridgeford Street, Oxford Road, The University of Manchester
SESSION 3:TECHNICAL SESSION 2 -‐ RADIONUCLIDES INVITED SPEAKERS – RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION & NORM
Chair: Germán Monge Ganuzas (idom)
14:00-‐14:25 Prof Katherine Morris (SEAES, University of Manchester, UK) -‐Radioactively Contaminated Land – The Sellafield Site in the Context of Radionuclide Remediation
14:25-‐14:50 Celia Jones (Kemakta, Sweden) A model for the calculation of individual dose from exposure to radionuclides in contaminated soil.
14:50-‐15:15 James Day (CH2M) -‐ Summary of the Sellafield Project for Development of In-‐ground Options to Mitigate Potential Leaks from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silos
15:15-‐15:40 Carlos Puras (IDOM, Spain) -‐ An integrated approach to a case of sampling NORM waste in the Oil & Gas Industry
15:40-‐16:00 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 4: INTERACTIVE SESSION
Building for the future – meeting our research, knowledge transfer and training needs for the next 10 years Chair: Prof Dave Polya (University of Manchester) and facilitators:
16:00-‐16:10 Dave Polya (UoM) – Introduction - setting the scene in terms of the aim of the session and how it will be organised
16.10-‐16.40 Table-centered discussions I: What are the major regulatory / technological changes predicted or needed for
the contaminated land sector in the EU/globally over the next 10 years? II: What are the major requirements/issues for new research / knowledge transfer /
training in contaminated land?
16.40-‐17.05 Plenary – Intermediate Feedback & Summary
17.05-‐17.30 Table-centered discussion III: Formulate the scope of a proposal for selected issues raised in [research / knowledge transfer / training] in contaminated land.
17:30-‐17:40 Chair Plenary Feedback Summary & Conclusions
18:00 -‐19:30 REFRESHMENTS & POSTER SESSION 1
19.30-‐22.00 NICOLE CONFERENCE DINNER
Technology Award 2015 Announcement Venue: Manchester Museum, the University of Manchester
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Friday 26 June 2015 CONFERENCE DAY 2 Venue: Humanities Bridgeford Street, Oxford Road, The University of Manchester
SESSION 5:TECHNICAL SESSION 3 – INVITED SPEAKERS ON PFAS – FATE & TRANSPORT/ BEHAVIOUR IN SOIL & GROUNDWATER Chair: Birgitta Beuthe (BP, UK)
09.00-‐09.20 Tony Fletcher (LSHTM & PHE, UK) – PFAS epidemiology and risk assessment
09.20-‐09.40 Rula Deeb (Geosyntec, US) -‐ Addressing PFAS Impacts: State-‐of-‐the-‐Practice and a U.S. Perspective (overview to be focussed on remediation options and technologies for PFAS)
09.40-‐10.00 Linda Lee (Purdue University) -‐ Abiotic Treatment Technologies Using Zero-‐Valent Metals, Catalysts, and Vitamin B12 for In-‐Situ Remediation of Persistent Perfluoroalkyl Acids
10:00-‐10:20 Alan Wilson (ERM) – subject to confirmation -‐ Critical Evaluation of the new PFOS Environmental Quality Standard.
10.20-‐10.30 Questions and Discussion
10.30-‐11.15 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION 2
SESSION 6 TECHNICAL SESSION 4 – ASBESTOS & CHALLENGING METALS AND METALLOIDS INVITED SPEAKERS Chair: Roger Jacquet (Solvay)
11.15-‐11.40 Simon Cole (AECOM, UK) & Ross McFarland (AECOM, Australia) -‐ Risk-‐Based Assessment and Management of Asbestos-‐in-‐Soil (ASBINS) in Australia and New Zealand and update on SoBRAs work in UK
11.40-‐12:00 Peter Tromp – Asbestos (TNO) -‐ Investigation, risk assessment and remediation of asbestos contaminated sites – the Dutch Practice
12:00-‐12:15 Dave Polya (SEAES, University of Manchester, UK) -‐ Regulation & risk assessment of arsenic in water, food and soil: bioequivalence modelling and biomonitoring
12.15-‐12.35 Alan Seech (PeroxyChem, USA) -‐ Reduction, Adsorption, and Precipitation of Heavy Metals by Elemental Iron, Iron Sulfides, and Related Reactive Minerals
12.35-‐12.50 Aldo Trezzi (Ramboll Environ Italy srl) -‐ In situ Chemical Reduction of CrVI. An innovative approach to treat unsatured soils
12.50-‐13.00 Questions and Discussion
13.00-‐14.00 LUNCH – UNIVERSITY RESEARCH POSTERS AND JOB FAIR
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Friday 26 June 2015 (continued) CONFERENCE DAY 2 Venue: Humanities Bridgeford Street, Oxford Road, The University of Manchester
SESSION 7: TECHNICAL SESSION 5 – PHARMA & HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS – INVITED SPEAKERS Chair: Marcus Ford (Geosyntec, UK)
14.00-‐14.20 Nick Voulvoulis (Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London) Contaminants of emerging concern in soils: Implications for risk assessment
14.20-‐14.40 Leah MacKinnon (Geosyntec, Canada) -‐ Innovative In Situ and Ex Situ Treatment Solutions for Emerging Contaminants: Field and Laboratory Case Studies
14.40-‐15.00 Dora Chiang (AECOM, US) -‐ Characterization and Remediation of 1,4-‐Dioxane: Updates, Possibilities and Challenges
15:00-‐15:20 Damia Barcelo (IDAEA-‐CSIC, Spain) -‐ Fate and Risk of Pesticides, Pharmaceuticals, Illicit Drugs and Personal Care Products in the Iberian river basins of Ebro and Llobregat: Challenges and Solutions using Advanced Treatment Technologies in a European context.
15.20-‐15.30 Questions and Discussion
15:30-‐15:40 FINAL COMMENTS & CONFERENCE CLOSE
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NICOLE Organizing Committee Rick Parkman (Chair) – AECOM Birgitta Beuthe -‐ BP Owen Stevens – Environ Ian Ross – Arcadis Marianne Wilton – Environ Dave Polya -‐ University of Manchester Sarah MacKay -‐ ERM Alan Wilson – ERM Germán Monge Ganuzas -‐ Idom Marcus Ford -‐ Geosyntec Consultants Ltd Rob Noden -‐ Golder Associates Thierry Imbert -‐ Golder Associates Richard Hepburn – ALcontrol Lucy Wiltshire -‐ Honeywell International Inc Hans Groot – Deltares Lucia Buvé – Umicore Tomás Albergaria -‐ ISEP / Requimte
NICOLE Secretariat For further information on NICOLE membership, workshop program, registration & fees, or any other practical issue with regards to the conference, please contact: Nan Su (Dutch Sino Business Promotions) P.O. Box 28249 – 3003 KE Rotterdam, The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)6 41374680 E-‐mail: [email protected]
Venues
NICOLE Network meeting
Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester
Conference & workshops
Humanities Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester
Conference dinner Manchester Museum , The University of Manchester
Registration Please complete the conference registration form, available online through NICOLE.org and/or the NICOLE secretariat. Deadline for registration: 1st of June 2015.
Fees Participation in the NICOLE 2015 Workshop is free of charge for NICOLE members, Common Forum members, and conference speakers. Information on admission fees for other participants can be obtained through the NICOLE secretariat