HR: 10:30h
AN: H42B-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: A Structural Approach to Performance Monitoring of Waste Sites: Obtaining Actionable Information
AU: * Mattson, E D
EM: earl.mattson@inl.gov
AF: Idaho National Laboratory, PO Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2107 United States
AU: Versteeg, R
EM: roelof.versteeg@inl.gov
AF: Idaho National Laboratory, PO Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2107 United States
AU: Ankeny, M
EM: mark.ankeny@inl.gov
AF: Idaho National Laboratory, PO Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2107 United States
AU: Richardson, A
EM: alex.richardson@inl.gov
AF: Idaho National Laboratory, PO Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2107 United States
AB: Both government and non-government agencies are faced with the challenge of long-term monitoring of waste sites and landfills. Such monitoring should provide actionable information on how these sites are evolving, including (but not limited to) information on the success of remedial treatment methods (either active or passive), compliance with regulatory standards, and evolution of system behavior associated with these sites. Current monitoring efforts suffer from the lack of integration between data collection, data management, information extraction and information use. An alternative to such efforts is the use of a structural approach to performance monitoring developed at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). This approach has the following characteristics (1) tight integration between monitoring objectives and data collection efforts (2) well structured storage of all relevant monitoring data (3) establishment of transparent, reproducible procedures for translation of data to information (including coupling of data to models) (4) development of a web based interface to the monitoring system, providing easy access to data and results by multiple stakeholders. We will discuss several examples of the implementation of the INL monitoring system, including an EPA superfund site and several landfill sites.
DE: 1831 Groundwater quality
DE: 1848 Networks
DE: 1875 Unsaturated zone
DE: 1894 Instruments and techniques
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly