Brian Valleskey, CFM, CLP (Wisconsin), Rishab Mahajan, PE, CFM, CPSWQ, Matthew Bardol, PE, CFM, CPESC, D.WRE, and Dennis Dreher (Illinois) will present at the North Branch Watershed Workgroup (NBWW) virtual meeting at 1:00 p.m. CST on November 10, 2021.
Brian Valleskey, CFM, CLP, (Wisconsin) has been selected to join the Winnebago Waterways Steering Team as a member-at-large for 2021.
Lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and marine environments, especially those in urban waterfront and coastal areas, often have contaminated sediment and surface water and stressed biota from decades of industrial and commercial activities. Sediment contamination can include metals, crude oil and refined petroleum compounds, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pesticides, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Because contaminated sediment sites present complex challenges, site evaluation and cleanup are expensive and can take several years to implement, and the metrics for remedy effectiveness are not often well defined.
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