SERDP ESTCP ITRC A PARTNERSHIP

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SERDP- ESTCP- ITRC A PARTNERSHIP

• Dr. Jeffrey Marqusee
• Jeffrey.Marqusee_at_osd.mil
• ESTCP, Director
• SERDP, Technical Director

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DoDs Environmental Technology Programs
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Environmental Quality
Munitions Management
Weapons Systems Platforms
Environmental Restoration
Sustainable Infrastructure
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Environmental TechnologyDevelopment Process
ESTCP
DERP/OM
SERDP
Requirements
Basic/Applied Research
Advanced Development
Implementation
Commercialization
DUSD(IE)
DDRE
DUSD(IE)
Commercial
REGULATORY COOPERATION
REGULATORY COOPERATION - ITRC
INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
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Our Impacts

• Cost Avoidance and Savings
• Improved Environmental Performance
• Improved Mission Performance

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Permeable Reactive Barriers(PRB)
NPV Saving gt 150 M

• Passive In Situ Treatment
• Chlorinated solvents treatment
• 21 DoD full scale systems

ITRC Lesson Learned Doc.
Multi Site Demo
ITRC Reg. Doc.
ITRC Design Doc.
1ST DoD Demo
ESTCP Support
Operational Systems
1st
10th
20th
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DoD Cleanup Funding
Fiscal Year
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Where are we?
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Opportunities and Challenges

• What are the priorities?
• Needs of DoD
• Potential to impact cleanup program
• Lets be proactive not reactive
• DNAPL
• Molecular Biology
• Sediments
• Emerging Contaminants
• UXO

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Chlorinated Solvents

• Drive the costs of DoD groundwater cleanup
• Decisions on DNAPL are critical
• Cleanup objectives
• Remedy selection
• Remedy design and optimization
• Science based engineering decisions
• Technology applications
• Assessing remedies
• Short and long term
• Monitoring performance

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Field Application of Molecular Biological Tools

• Explosion of techniques
• Fundamentally changed laboratory microbiology
• Can they truly impact the field?
• Design, Monitoring and Assessment
• What decisions will they affect?
• How reliable are they?

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Contaminated Sediments

• Over 200 Navy sites
• 1B liability
• Sediment treatment option are limited
• Large complex sites
• Ecologically complex
• Need for in-situ management options
• Science based risk management

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Emerging Groundwater Contaminants

• Perchlorate is here what is next?
• N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)
• 1,4 Dioxane
• 1,2,3 Tricholropropane (TCP)
• ....?
• All probable human carcinogens
• All highlighted by regulatory agencies
• Uncertain distribution but may be widespread
• All are persistent and mobile
• We need to be proactive not reactive

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Unexploded Ordnance(UXO)

• UXO Contamination of land and water
• gt20 million acres
• gt 3300 sites
• gt20B liability
• RD Objectives
• Wide Area Assessment
• Detection Discrimination
• Land and Water
• Recovery and Disposal
• Planning and Support
• Critical technical decisions
• Impact in the billions

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Wide Area Assessment

• Challenge of managing gt20M acres
• Most is contamination free
• But which part?
• How do we decide on no further action?
• Visible
• Defensible
• Reproducible
• The key is technology

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UXO Discrimination Complex Risk Decisions

• Challenge of decisions based on limited data
• Cost effective cleanup maximizes risk reduction
• Risk is not static
• How do we decide to dig or not?
• Visible
• Defensible
• Reproducible
• The key is technology

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Underwater UXO

• Challenge of managing risk in a dangerous
  environment
• Two primary risk drivers
• Explosive safety
• Environmental toxicity
• Management actions
• Assess risk
• Mitigate when necessary
• What is the science?
• What are the real technical options?

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Opportunities

• Remediation is a knowledge based industry
• Science can impact near term
• Rigorous field trials are critical
• Validated information
• Rapid transfer of information is critical
• Decisions need to be made
• SERDP-ESTCP-ITRC
• A partnership that works

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Sponsored by SERDP and ESTCP Partners in
Environmental Technology Technical Symposium and
Workshop November 28 30, 2006 Marriott
Wardman Park Hotel Washington, D.C.