UNR/NWRA Spring Dinner Forum
Date
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Location
Best Western Plus Airport Plaza Hotel
1981 Terminal Way
Reno, NV 89502
Time
6:00 p.m. No-Host Bar
7:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. Presentation
About
“Opportunities in Mine Water Remediation: Leveraging Lessons and New Insights in Hydrogeology & Large Plume Treatment”
Presented by Dr. Craig Divine, Principal Hydrogeologist and Vice President at ARCADIS US, Inc.
Although the remediation industry is more than three decades old, one of the most difficult practical challenges remains — namely, how to deal with very large (several km long) dissolved plumes. Conventional presumptive thinking for these challenges emphasizes perpetual groundwater containment and risk management rather than focusing on contaminant mass removal and treatment. However, over the past decade there have been a number of significant theoretical and practical advances in the science and engineering of groundwater remediation that have important applications for successfully addressing the technical, implementation, and cost challenges associated with these large plumes. For example, it is now widely recognized that in the vast majority of cases, groundwater flow and contaminant mass transport occurs in only a small fraction (the most permeable fraction) of the aquifer porespace, while the porespace associated with less permeable materials represents the potential for contaminant storage. This understanding has driven an increased emphasis on fine-scale geologic characterization and hydrostratigraphy, and on conceptual models and remediation strategies more focused on contaminant mass flux. Furthermore, there is now a great body of experience utilizing injected-reagent remediation technologies to address a wide variety of organic and inorganic contaminants highlights; this experience has resulted in practical and cost-effective approaches for efficient reagent distribution, optimizing treatment performance, and effectively combining multiple remediation technologies. Leveraging these advances and evolving insights in plume treatment provides an exciting opportunity to achieve near-term progress, improve lifecycle cost certainty, and reduce risk related to many of the large groundwater plumes associated with mining-related operations.
Space is limited for this event, so please register early to reserve your seat.
The reservation deadline is Monday, April 7, 2014 at 3:00 p.m.
Early Registration by March 31st: $35 NWRA Members, $40 Non Members, $20 Students
Registration after March 31st: $45 NWRA Members, $50 Non Members, $20 Students
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