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18-Env-B4 Site Assessment and Remediation: December 2015

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  1. Question 1 Sampling Plan for a Rail-Yard Crude Oil Spill
  2. Question 2 In-Situ vs. Ex-Situ Remediation of a Former Munitions Factory
  3. Question 3 Phase I vs. Phase II Environmental Site Assessments
  4. Question 4 Brownfield Redevelopment in Central Southern Ontario
  5. Question 5 Modelling a Gasoline Release from an Underground Storage Tank
  6. Question 6 Section B — Two of Three Questions
  7. Question 7 TCE Migration and Pump-and-Treat Remediation
  8. Question 8 Bioventing a Gasoline-Contaminated Soil Pile

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National Exams; December 2015 — 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); Freeze & Cherry, Groundwater; Schwarzenbach, Gschwend & Imboden, Environmental Organic Chemistry; Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering (6th ed.); Leeson & Hinchee (1997), Soil Bioventing: Principles and Practice (AFCEE); ASTM E1527 Standard Practice for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and ASTM E1903 Standard Practice for Phase II ESA; American Petroleum Institute (API) publications on UST release modelling; 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