This 1.5-day course provides participants with an introduction to applied environmental chemistry principles and practices which underlie the release, fate and transport, sampling, analysis, and cleanup of chemicals contaminating environmental media with particular emphasis on soil and groundwater. This course is designed for environmental professionals who wish to refresh and/or extend their knowledge of, and their ability to apply, basic chemistry principles.

Specific topics include: a survey of selected chemical industries or processes that release hazardous chemicals into the environment; fate and transport of chemicals in environmental media; data quality objectives, including the control of false positive and false negative decision errors; and data usability, including defining detection limits and data qualifiers.

• List key chemicals and modes of release associated with selected chemical industries or processes.
• Describe the chemical, soil, water, and geological properties which govern the fate and transport of chemicals in environmental media.
• List chemical parameter changes associated with aerobic and anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons in subsurface media.
• Identify the elements of the data quality objective (DQO) process.
• Evaluate the consequences of false positive and false negative decision errors.
• Describe procedures and practices commonly employed to ensure the quality and usability of analytical chemical data.
• Define common terms and parameters used to evaluate and communicate the quality and usability of analytical chemical data.

Tuition - Personnel from EPA, Other Federal Agencies, and State and Local Government DO NOT PAY TUITION for ERTP Courses.  Tuition for University Staff, Community HAZMAT Teams, and Students is Also Waived.  Personnel not directly employed by a government agency (e.g.. private industry, contractor, or unemployed) pay tuition of $250 and will be sent further information about how to pay tuition after they have registered.

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