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18-Env-B4 Site Assessment and Remediation: May 2014

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  1. Question 1 Site Assessment for a Dry-Cleaning Unit (PCE)
  2. Question 2 Phase II Sampling at a Closing Fastener Plant
  3. Question 3 Rail-Tanker Crude Oil Derailment — Fate in the Vadose Zone
  4. Question 4 First-Responder Decisions Protecting a Downgradient Wetland
  5. Question 5 Record of Site Condition for a Brownfield Redevelopment
  6. Question 6 Section B — Two of Three Questions
  7. Question 7 Benzene Sorption and Retarded Plume Travel Time
  8. Question 8 m-Xylene Pool Volatilization Time

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National Exams — May 2014 — 04-Env-B4 / Site Assessment and Remediation. 3 hours duration; open-book exam (any non-communicating calculator permitted). The paper is split into Section A (five questions, candidates asked to answer three) and Section B (three questions, candidates asked to answer two), each question worth 20 marks. All eight questions are solved below for completeness.

Reference texts. Suthersan & Payne, Remediation Engineering: Design Concepts (CRC Press); Gavaskar, Gupta, Sass, Janosy & O'Sullivan, Design Guidance for Application of Permeable Reactive Barriers for Groundwater Remediation (Battelle/EPA, 2000); ASTM E1527 Standard Practice for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and ASTM E1903 Standard Practice for Phase II ESA; Mercer & Cohen (1990), “A review of immiscible fluids in the subsurface,” Journal of Contaminant Hydrology; Freeze & Cherry, Groundwater; Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering (6th ed.); Ontario Reg. 153/04 under the Environmental Protection Act (Record of Site Condition regime); BC Environmental Management Act — Contaminated Sites Regulation.

Section A — Three of Five Questions