Lunch Forum: September 19, 2013
Topic: Recent and Upcoming Updates to the HEER Office Technical Guidance Manual
Presented by Roger Brewer, HDOH HEER Office
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. (presentation begins promptly at noon)
Location: Oahu Country Club, 150 Country Club Road, Honolulu HI 96817
Summary
Roger Brewer with the Department of Health will present information about updates to the Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response (HEER) Office Technical Guidance Manual.
Sections of the HEER office TGM that discuss Soil Vapor Sampling (Section 7), target analytes for petroleum and pesticides (Section 9), and issues related to Environmental Hazard Evaluations and EALs (Section 13) were updated in March of this year including expansion of recommended field protocols for the collection of soil vapor samples, revision of target pesticides for former agricultural fields, and updating of EALs using results of a study on the role of TPH in petroleum vapor intrusion. These updates incorporate experience gained on these topics since the initial publication of the guidance in 2009. The approach developed was recently published in an international environmental journal.
Updates planned for later this year include guidance for DU-MIS investigations (Sections 3-5), groundwater sampling and monitoring well installation and abandonment (Section 6) and field screening methodologies (Section 8), among updates to several other sections.
About the Speaker Roger Brewer is a senior scientist and environmental hazard assessment specialist with the Hawai’i Department of Health. His
experience includes regulatory compliance audits, field investigations, contaminant fate and transport modeling, and human health and ecological risk assessments. He has been instrumental in the development and field implementation of the state’s Decision Unit and Incremental Sampling Methodology guidance, initiated in 2004. Roger has also worked as an environmental consultant in the US, Asia and South America and as a senior geologist and environmental risk assessment specialist for the California Environmental Protection Agency. His academic background includes a PhD in geology.
Roger Brewer with the Department of Health will present information about updates to the Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response (HEER) Office Technical Guidance Manual.
Sections of the HEER office TGM that discuss Soil Vapor Sampling (Section 7), target analytes for petroleum and pesticides (Section 9), and issues related to Environmental Hazard Evaluations and EALs (Section 13) were updated in March of this year including expansion of recommended field protocols for the collection of soil vapor samples, revision of target pesticides for former agricultural fields, and updating of EALs using results of a study on the role of TPH in petroleum vapor intrusion. These updates incorporate experience gained on these topics since the initial publication of the guidance in 2009. The approach developed was recently published in an international environmental journal.
Updates planned for later this year include guidance for DU-MIS investigations (Sections 3-5), groundwater sampling and monitoring well installation and abandonment (Section 6) and field screening methodologies (Section 8), among updates to several other sections.
About the Speaker Roger Brewer is a senior scientist and environmental hazard assessment specialist with the Hawai’i Department of Health. His
experience includes regulatory compliance audits, field investigations, contaminant fate and transport modeling, and human health and ecological risk assessments. He has been instrumental in the development and field implementation of the state’s Decision Unit and Incremental Sampling Methodology guidance, initiated in 2004. Roger has also worked as an environmental consultant in the US, Asia and South America and as a senior geologist and environmental risk assessment specialist for the California Environmental Protection Agency. His academic background includes a PhD in geology.
