PROBLEM
STATEMENT
The
term “due diligence” is pervasive throughout today’s
geological, environmental, and earth resources
industries. It permeates real estate transactions, it is
a launch-pad for Brownfields projects, it is the work
done to justify decisions of economic viability for
resource development, and it ultimately integrates a
variety of professional disciplines; technical and legal
among others.
Due
diligence processes evolve in response to changes that
are occurring in the business environment, and those
changes are determined by economic forces. Staying
current, or even better ‘getting ahead,’ can be a
challenge.
PCPG,
its partners, and its program sponsors are pleased to
present a one-day program of technical presentations
that are designed to highlight the latest methods,
tools, and technologies employed in environmental and
earth resource projects. Professionals will share
experiences to afford you an opportunity to consider how
your project challenges are being resolved by others,
and there will be ample opportunity to discuss problems
that are common within your area of practice.
Join
site characterization and remediation scientists, water
resource specialists, industrial mineral managers, and
land developers to engage in discussions of some of the
latest “start-to-finish” aspects of the projects
that collectively define economic development and earth
resource stewardship in today’s Pennsylvania. |
GOAL
OF THE SYMPOSIUM
In
sponsoring this Symposium, PCPG invites the community of
earth, water, and environmental scientists, researchers,
regulators, and public policy makers to present papers on
current topics and issues relevant to water and the
environment in Pennsylvania. Papers should share achievements,
advances, innovations, and challenges encountered in the
following topic areas:
Water Resources
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Water sustainability;
ground water availability; surface and ground water
interaction; water resource models; hydrogeology; surface
water hydrology; emerging contaminants
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Water resource plans;
watershed management; water permitting;
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Source water protection;
water security; water well construction standards;
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River and stream
restoration; geomorphology
Remediation
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Remedial investigation
techniques; human health risk assessment; ecological risk
assessment; forensic and statistical environmental
tools/techniques; geochemistry; ecology; geophysical
characterization methods
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Abandoned Mine Reclamation;
industrial land recycling; brownfield redevelopment; post
remediation care; institutional controls
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Soil, sediment, and
groundwater remediation technology;
Geological
Hazards
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Investigative
and remedial work with landslides, karst and sinkhole
geology, carbon dioxide, land subsidence and collapse,
acid soils
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