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

3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
September 2, 2003

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, the following members of the Remediation Technologies Development Forum's Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRB) Action Team's Steering Committee met in a conference call:

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

Also participating in the call were Peter Riddle from Environmental Management Support, Inc., and Christine Hartnett from ERG.


NEXT PRB ACTION TEAM MEETING

The next PRB Action Team meeting will take place at the Holiday Inn Select in Niagara Falls, New York, in October 2003. The meeting will consist of three components.

Steering Committee Meeting

The PRB Action Team Steering Committee will hold an informal meeting on the evening of October 14, 2003. Bob Puls said that he will prepare an agenda for this meeting and send it to Christine Hartnett, who will in turn send it to the entire Steering Committee. Puls noted that the Action Team's PRB site profiles would be included as an agenda item. This prompted Peter Riddle to report on the profiles' status: six sites have been updated so far, and five new sites have been identified.

Action Team Meeting

A PRB Action Team meeting will take place on October 15 and 16, 2003. During this meeting, four sessions of platform presentations will be delivered and two open discussions will be held. Call participants provided an update on the planning done thus far on the four sessions, and agreed that the sessions should be held in the following order:

Call participants agreed that two sessions should be held per day and that each day should end with a 30-minute discussion period. They also agreed that the individual platform presentations should be about 30 minutes long, with 10 minutes of question-and-answer time embedded into that time period.

Poster Session

Call participants expressed interest in holding a poster session on the evening of October 15, 2003. If plenty of poster presenters can be identified over the next month, Puls said, it would be ideal to have the poster session in a spacious room with refreshments. But if the response to the call for posters is poor, Puls said, a separate poster session would not be warranted. Under such a scenario, it would be better to simply set up a few posters in the Action Team meeting room and encourage attendees to view them during coffee and lunch breaks.


ACTION ITEMS