LTR - Ep 69 - What Is The Proper Way To Perform Water Remediation?

And with that, let's get started with our 69th episode.

We're building on our last episode, 68, where 68, the topic was, what is the proper way to perform soil remediation? Here in our 69th episode, building upon that, we're going to talk about what's the proper way to perform water remediation.

So there are some similarities as in the systematic approach.

The systematic approach as a refresher from the last episode is typically whenever you're doing remediation in general, you need to do an initial site assessment.

A site assessment determines what contaminants are present and at what concentration levels.

And then you need to do a little bit of research to determine What do you need to do to that contamination to bring it in environmental compliance? So you need to research for what you found in your initial site assessment to determine OK, well, we have elevated contamination levels of this type of contaminant and we need to remediate it down to this threshold of interest or this level in order to be in compliance with the environmental laws of the state.

So, and again, the systematic plan would be to do the initial site assessment, then do some research to find out what you have to do to come in to be in compliance, what you have to remediate down to, what threshold of interest.

Then you need to consider feasibility evaluation.

Feasibility means, OK, what are my options in order to do this remediation to get this contaminant level, this elevated contaminant level down to be in compliance below the threshold of interest? And then once you consider those options, you've you've you've.

You've evaluated your options and you're now considering your options.

You need to come up with a remediation design or a plan.

And that plan chooses which option or options, because sometimes the best approach most of the time is to do a combination of options to perform remediation.

And once you've determined what options you're going to use to do the remediation, that also includes, okay, in order to implement those options, you have to know what kind of equipment you need, what's the timeline, all that.

So that's your design plan to figure out, okay, now that we've selected our option or options, now let's get a plan in place for implementing that.

And then the next phase is actually implementing, you're implementing that design plan, you're putting that design plan into action, and you're actually performing the physical function of the remediation.

And then once you have done that, once you you've performed that physical remediation work, you now need to do your confirmation samples, you know, so you Along the way, you monitored yourself with field measurements, such as using the Hamby Environmental Field Test Kits, and to monitor your work.

And you know that you've, you had your initial site assessment where you determined what your contamination levels were, and they were elevated.

And you did your research, found out what levels you need to remediate them down to.

Then you determined what options you have in order to do that.

Then you came up with your design plan and then you implemented that plan.

And now that you've done the physical remediation work and your field measurements have told you you've reduced that elevated contamination level below the environmental compliance requirements, that threshold of interest.

And now that your field measurements are telling you that you have been successful in the remediation work, now you need to take some confirmatory samples and send them off for third-party validation so that that laboratory confirms what you already know by your field measurements and you know that you have actually been successful in performing the remediation, at which point now you can begin working on your closure reports.

So that is the systematic plan for doing remediation in general, whether it's soil or water.

And with that, let's get started with our 69th episode.

We're building on our last episode, 68, where 68, the topic was, what is the proper way to perform soil remediation? Here in our 69th episode, building upon that, we're going to talk about what's the proper way to perform water remediation.

So there are some similarities as in the systematic approach.

The systematic approach as a refresher from the last episode is typically whenever you're doing remediation in general, you need to do an initial site assessment.

A site assessment determines what contaminants are present and at what concentration levels.

And then you need to do a little bit of research to determine What do you need to do to that contamination to bring it in environmental compliance? So you need to research for what you found in your initial site assessment to determine OK, well, we have elevated contamination levels of this type of contaminant and we need to remediate it down to this threshold of interest or this level in order to be in compliance with the environmental laws of the state.

So, and again, the systematic plan would be to do the initial site assessment, then do some research to find out what you have to do to come in to be in compliance, what you have to remediate down to, what threshold of interest.

Then you need to consider feasibility evaluation.

Feasibility means, OK, what are my options in order to do this remediation to get this contaminant level, this elevated contaminant level down to be in compliance below the threshold of interest? And then once you consider those options, you've you've you've.

You've evaluated your options and you're now considering your options.

You need to come up with a remediation design or a plan.

And that plan chooses which option or options, because sometimes the best approach most of the time is to do a combination of options to perform remediation.

And once you've determined what options you're going to use to do the remediation, that also includes, okay, in order to implement those options, you have to know what kind of equipment you need, what's the timeline, all that.

So that's your design plan to figure out, okay, now that we've selected our option or options, now let's get a plan in place for implementing that.

And then the next phase is actually implementing, you're implementing that design plan, you're putting that design plan into action, and you're actually performing the physical function of the remediation.

And then once you have done that, once you you've performed that physical remediation work, you now need to do your confirmation samples, you know, so you Along the way, you monitored yourself with field measurements, such as using the Hamby Environmental Field Test Kits, and to monitor your work.

And you know that you've, you had your initial site assessment where you determined what your contamination levels were, and they were elevated.

And you did your research, found out what levels you need to remediate them down to.

Then you determined what options you have in order to do that.

Then you came up with your design plan and then you implemented that plan.

And now that you've done the physical remediation work and your field measurements have told you you've reduced that elevated contamination level below the environmental compliance requirements, that threshold of interest.

And now that your field measurements are telling you that you have been successful in the remediation work, now you need to take some confirmatory samples and send them off for third-party validation so that that laboratory confirms what you already know by your field measurements and you know that you have actually been successful in performing the remediation, at which point now you can begin working on your closure reports.

So that is the systematic plan for doing remediation in general, whether it's soil or water.