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18-Env-B4 Site Assessment and Remediation: May 2013

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  1. Question 1 Site Assessment for a Former Car-Rim Stamping Facility
  2. Question 2 Sampling Program for a Closed Heavy-Metal Plating Facility
  3. Question 3 Fate and Transport of a Leaking Gasoline UST
  4. Question 4 Ideal Remediation Solution for the Combined Soil/Groundwater Impact
  5. Question 5 Barriers to Brownfield Redevelopment
  6. Question 6 Pump-and-Treat Clean-Up Time for a TCE Spill
  7. Question 7 Bioventing Air Flow and First-Order Remediation Time
  8. Question 8 Sorption-Controlled Extent of a BTEX Wastewater Spill

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Reference texts: Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, 6th ed.; Freeze & Cherry, Groundwater, 1979; Fetter, Contaminant Hydrogeology, 2nd ed.; LaGrega, Buckingham & Evans, Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd ed.; Suthersan, Remediation Engineering: Design Concepts, 2nd ed.; Leeson & Hinchee (AFCEE), Principles and Practices of Bioventing, 1997; CSA Z768/Z769 (Phase I/II ESA); BC Environmental Management Act & Contaminated Sites Regulation.

The paper instructs candidates to answer any THREE of the FIVE questions in Section A and any TWO of the THREE questions in Section B. All eight questions are answered in full below, since this solution set is used as a complete study resource.