Preliminary Results from Surface Water Monitoring with C.L.A.M. at the Spokane Tribal Boundary in May and September of 2015 Brandee Era-Miller Washington.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

1 PCBs and PBDEs on the Guadalupe River WYs 2003 – 2006 John Oram, Jon Leatherbarrow, and Lester McKee Sources Pathways and Loadings Workgroup November.

Advertisements

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Flame Retardants in San Francisco Bay Daniel R. Oros, Ph.D. San Francisco Estuary Institute.

Technical Requirements for Site Remediation Backbone of New Jerseys Site Remediation Program.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Technical Assistance Services for Communities 2012 Review of Preliminary Phase II Groundwater Report J. Stuart Wiswall,

Spokane County Wastewater Toxics Monitoring – Year One April 24, 2013 | DRAFT.

PBT Initiative and PCBs Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force Holly Davies, Ph.D. April 24 th, 2013.

Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s NNSA U N C L A S S I F I E D Integrated Post-Las Conchas Monitoring Los.

Spokane River PCB Source Assessment Washington State Department of Ecology Spokane River Forum May

QA/QC FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENT Unit 4: Module 13, Lecture 2.

Introduction to PCB Congeners Presented by Jamie Fox.

Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force Members of the community, stewards of the river 8/17/2015srrttf.org1.

SRRTTF Synoptic Sampling Event August Sample scoping meeting and site reconnaissance on July , 2014 Scope revised to include vessel use,

Establishing Baseline Levels on PBDEs in Lake Ontario Surface Water Frederick Luckey, New York State DEC Brian Fowler, AXYS Analytical Services Simon Litten,

Technical Track Work Group Report Out August xx, 2012.

The Destruction of the World Trade Center and PCBs, PBDEs, PCDD/Fs, PBDD/Fs, and Chlorinated Biphenylenes in Water, Sediment, and Sewage Sludge Simon Litten,

Developing Baseline Information on PBDEs in Lake Ontario Surface Water Frederick Luckey, New York State DEC Simon Litten, New York State DEC Brian Fowler,

SRRTTF Synoptic Sampling Event August Sample scoping meeting and site reconnaissance on July , 2014 Scope revised to include vessel use,

Measuring PCBs in Lake Ontario Surface Water Using Full-Scan Congener Methods Frederick Luckey U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Simon Litten.

Examining Bioaccumulation & Biomagnification: Implications for Ecosystems and Human Health.

COMMITMENT & INTEGRITY DRIVE RESULTS Risk Based Corrective Action Using site-specific risk assessment to achieve Regulatory Closure.

SRRTTF Technical Activities Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going Dave Dilks Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force Workshop January 13,

Toxics Management Plans Ecology Review Principles.

BACKRIVER TMDL PROJECT Technical Outreach Prepared by MDE/TARSA Prepared for the Baltimore Harbor Stakeholder Advisory Group September 10, 2002.

Modeling to Understand Stormwater Management Efforts Portland Harbor Superfund Site Dawn Sanders City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services September.

Science 10. Covalent Compounds Covalent compounds are formed between nonmetals only Nonmetals combine in more than one ratio therefore we must use prefixes.

Updates to QAPP for 2015 Synoptic Survey Dave Dilks August 5, 2015.

LA-UR PCBs in Rio Grande Watershed Surface Water and Sediment Sampling A Cooperative Study Ralph Ford-Schmid, NMED Ken Mullen, LANL October.

Atmospheric Deposition Strategy Straw Proposal. What Pollutants Matter? Highest priority – known impairment AND air sources: Hg, dioxins Moderate priority.

Evaluation of Intrinsic Biodegradation and Amendments to Support Enhanced Monitored Natural Recovery of Sediments Tom Krug and David Himmelheber, Geosyntec.

Technical Track Work Group Report Out August 22, 2012.

Introduction Lake Ontario is one of the world’s largest lakes with a surface area of 19,000 km 2 and an average depth of 86 m. In addition to supporting.

DRAFT Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force Members of the community, stewards of the river 6/4/2016srrttf.org1.

SEDIMENT EVALUATION FRAMEWORK: THE APPLICANT EXPERIENCE Jeffrey Peterson, Ph.D.

Application of Method 1668A to the Analysis of Dioxin-Like PCBs and Total PCBs in Human Tissue and Environmental Samples Coreen Hamilton, Todd Fisher,

Covalent compounds Sharing of electrons. Chemical Bonds Ionic Bond – Transfer of electron – Exist in a crystal lattice form Covalent Bond – Pairs of electrons.

Challenges of Conducting Analytical Chemistry in Environmental Matrices May 8 th 2006 Meg Sedlak and Don Yee San Francisco Estuary Institute Oakland, California.

Developing a Cumulative Effects Monitoring Program for the Saint John Harbour – Contaminants Karen Kidd and Angella Mercer Canadian Rivers Institute, UNB.

Brian Hitchens and Sam Williams PCBs in the Urban Environment: Implications for Long-Term Sustainability Of Low-Threshold Remediation.

Charge Question 3-1 Comment Summary for HHCB Peer Review Panel Meeting January 9, 2014.

Mass Balance Assessment of 2014 Synoptic Survey Results: Dave Dilks Spokane River Regional Toxics Task Force 2014 Workshop January 13,

SRRTTF Interpretation of Low Level PCB Data Project Objectives and Impact on +Blank Correction Procedures.

NOMENCLATURE Binary Molecular Compounds Periodic Table.

James River at Richmond, VA. Semi-Permeable Membrane Devices (SPMD’s) for Sampling Dissolved Organic Substances from Surface Waters Don Smith Virginia.

Naming Compounds Ionic Compounds Covalent Compounds.

3 STUDENT ASSESSMENT DEPARTMENT

California Ambient Dioxin Air Monitoring Program (CADAMP) Kathy Gill Air Resources Board Monitoring and Laboratory Division California Environmental Protection.

High Level Scoping for Upcoming Monitoring Dave Dilks, Joyce Dunkin SRRTTF Technical Track Work Group June 3,

TTWG Report & Technical Topics SRRTTF Meeting Dave Dilks March 16, 2016.

September 22 Objective: To analyze data we should have gotten in the lab.

Draft Work Plans West Branch of the Grand Calumet River Indiana September 2002 prepared by Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation for Grand Calumet River.

TTWG Report & Technical Topics SRRTTF Meeting Dave Dilks June 1, 2016.

Comparability of “Phase 2 Technical Activities Report” to Ecology’s “PCB Source Assessment” Dave Dilks SRRTTF June 24,

Quality is a Lousy Idea-

Presentation on Livermore Lab Site 300 Superfund Cleanup Peter Strauss, Environmental Scientist, PM Strauss & Assoc. Community-Wide Meeting on

Gregory J. Cavallo, P.G. Thomas J. Fikslin, Ph.D.

Task Force Activities We are working together on a new approach that identifies sources of PCBs and dioxins, directly applies a plan for reduction and.

WARM UP “The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have.” – Leonard Nimoy What does this mean to you? How can you apply this to Chemistry?

Stainless Steel Water Well Casing.

Molecules and covalent compounds

Molecules and covalent compounds

Eddy correlation – basic principles

Evaluate the iterated integral. {image} Select the correct answer

Mrs. Coyle Honors Chemistry

Quadratic Patterns.

PCB Concentrations in the Ambient Waters of the Delaware Estuary and Coastal Waters: Implications for TMDLs for PCBs Thomas J. Fikslin and Gregory Cavallo.

Measuring priority substances in water today

Naming Molecular Compounds

Bonding & Molecular Structure

Dinitrogen tetroxide is a binary, molecular compound.

COVALENT COMPOUNDS.

Presentation transcript:

Preliminary Results from Surface Water Monitoring with C.L.A.M. at the Spokane Tribal Boundary in May and September of 2015 Brandee Era-Miller Washington State Department of Ecology Environmental Assessment Program Toxics Studies Unit Presentation to SRRTTF TWG

May 2015 September 2015 Results for total PCB congeners: Results are within the noise of the C.L.A.M. sampling system (SPE disk housing contamination) Concentrations represent totals from Lab (need to blank correct per project objectives) Blanks shown are either Trip or Transfer (most comparable to samples)

PCB Homologue Example: Mono and Di (lightest) and Nona and Deca (Heaviest) – no environmental signal Tri through Octa appear to have potential environmental signal above the noise Still need to look at this for all samples 20 liter C.L.A.M. from May 2015

Results for PBDEs: Blanks shown are either Trip or Transfer (most comparable to samples) PBDE 47 appears to have strongest environmental signal above sampling system noise PBDE 99 and 209 are in the sampling system noise for half of the samples Still need to look at other PBDE congeners (40+) May 2015 September 2015

What Next? Use XAD-2 instead of C.L.A.M. for upcoming January sampling: o See if results can get above the noise o Upcoming Ecology study using XAD-2 at same location (Will Hobbs) Apply blank correction per project objectives and TWG input Look for patterns and information in homologues & congeners Summarize study information on C.L.A.M. QA/QC: o Breakthrough SPE disk analysis o Characterization of PCB contamination from disk housing EAP still evaluating appropriate use of C.L.A.M. o May not be best tool for low-level PCBs o Stainless steel SPE disk housing o Waiting on results of AXYS blank study

How to Blank Correct? Report NJs per SRRTTF/LimnoTech QAPP, but do NJs get included in totals? If using NJs, then should we include NJ data in blank correction? Seems like a good idea. 3x blank rule used in SRRTTF/LimnoTech QAPP, but 3x rule is typically not used by labs. 5x and 10x are more typical. Examples below are from Spokane Tribal Boundary Monitoring Study.