Summary of the Remediation Technologies and Development Forum

SUMMARY OF THE REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT FORUM
PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS ACTION TEAM
STEERING COMMITTEE CONFERENCE CALL

3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
July 8, 2003

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, the following members of the Remediation Technologies Development Forum's Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRB) Action Team met in a conference call:

Bob Puls, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Action Team Co-chair)
John Vidumsky, DuPont (Action Team Co-chair)
Tom Krug, GeoSyntec
Bob Gillham, University of Waterloo
Stephen White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Also participating in the call was Christine Hartnett from ERG.

NEXT PRB ACTION TEAM MEETING

Call participants discussed the logistics of the next PRB Action Team meeting, which will take place in Niagara Falls, New York, on October 15 and 16, 2003. They decided that the following should be done to prepare for the meeting:

Secure meeting room space at the Holiday Inn Select. Christine Hartnett said that ERG will ensure that this is done.

Distribute an invitation. Hartnett agreed to develop a draft invitation and distribute it to the call participants for review. Once approved, the invitation will be distributed to the entire PRB Action Team contact list. Call participants said that the invitation should include a request for poster and paper abstracts. It should also include a brief description of the sessions that are scheduled for the meeting. These sessions will span four topical areas: (1) hydraulics, (2) source zone management, (3) novel applications, and (4) long-term PRB performance.

Try to identify a sponsor. Call participants agreed that it would be nice if a sponsor provided refreshments during coffee breaks and/or the poster session. Bob Gillham agreed to contact one group to find out if they would be interested in sponsoring these events.

Set up another call to discuss the meeting agenda. Call participants decided to hold another call on August 6, 2003, to discuss the meeting agenda in more detail. ERG will set up this conference call.

Advertize the meeting. Bob Puls asked Hartnett to find out whether a meeting announcement can be posted on the RTDF Web site and EPA's Clu-In site. He also asked her to find out whether the meeting could be advertized through TechDirect. Hartnett agreed to follow up. Tom Krug said that a representative from the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) has agreed to add a link for the PRB meeting to the ESTCP Web site. Hartnett agreed to let Krug know when the announcement is available.