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Superfund Sediment Resource Center

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About the SSRC

The Superfund Sediment Resource Center (SSRC) assists EPA staff with technical issues related to the characterization and cleanup of contaminated sediment sites.

What Types of Assistance are Available from the Center?

  • Document and deliverable review (e.g., work plans)
  • General input on the results of engineering studies, modeling work, statistical/sampling designs and bioaccumulation studies
  • Technical transfer activities (preparing fact sheets, holding workshops)

What Expertise is Accessible through the Center?

The SSRC works with scientists and engineers from EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) as well as academics and consultants to provide expert advice. Areas of expertise accessible through the Center include:

  • Site characterization (data collection and evaluation)
  • Use of passive samplers
  • Sampling design and statistical analysis
  • Geomorphology and sediment transport/stability evaluations
  • Modeling (hydrodynamic, fate and transport, food chain)
  • Remedy evaluation, design and implementation (dredging, capping, monitored natural recovery (MNR), enhanced MNR, in-situ amendments, confined disposal facilities and innovative treatment technologies)
  • Monitoring plan design and implementation

Who Has Access to the SSRC?

At this time, site-specific requests are accepted only from federal project managers working on Superfund sites. As resources and time permit, the SSRC will also provide support to other federal cleanup programs. State project managers should work with their EPA regional counterparts to determine if assistance is available through the SSRC.

How Can I Obtain More Information about Contaminated Sediment Sites under Superfund?

The links on this Web page provide a list of sediment sites by EPA Region, as well as information about guidance documents, fact sheets and policies, the Contaminated Sediments Technical Advisory Group (CSTAG), meetings, conferences and workshops, and links to additional online resources.

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Resources for Contaminated Sediment Sites

Engineering Technical Support Center (TSC) - NRMRL
Contact: Dave Reisman (reisman.david@epa.gov), 513-569-7588
The Engineering Technical Support Center (TSC) provides site-specific assistance for engineering and treatment issues during any phase of a cleanup. Focus areas include containment, thermal treatments, soil vapor extraction, bioremediation and solidification/stabilization. Support is provided for incorporating technology-based data needs in remedial investigations and feasibility studies (RI/FSs) as well as evaluating remedy options during remedial designs, remedial actions and post-remedy construction. The center publishes Engineering Bulletins on technologies and site types. The center provides support at Superfund, Brownfields and RCRA Corrective Action sites.

Ecological Risk Assessment TSC - NCEA
Contact: Michael Kravitz (kravitz.michael@epa.gov), 513-569-7140
The Ecological Risk Assessment Support Center (ERASC) provides technical and management support and arranges for scientific review and consistency on topics relevant to ecological risk assessment and ecological concerns.

Monitoring and Site Characterization, Technology Support Center for Monitoring and Site Characterization - NERL
Contact: Felicia Barnett (barnett.felicia@epa.gov), 404-562-8659
The Technology Support Center (TSC) initially specialized in providing Superfund support to EPA RPMs and on-scene coordinators (OSCs). RCRA technical support has been available since 1991. When on-site work is required, the TSC mobilizes specialized teams of field scientists to aid the Regions with screening and site characterization. These teams work with RPMs and OSCs throughout a site characterization event – from planning and design to analysis and data interpretation. These projects often lead to identification of further research needs or development of protocols for experimental or sampling design. TSC site characterization technologies and expertise include field-portable x-ray fluorescence, soil-gas measurement, geophysics, special analytical services, quality assurance, GIS and data interpretation, geostatistics, statistical design, chemical analysis, radiochemical analysis and publications.

Superfund Health Risk TSC - NCEA
Contact: Harlal Choudhury (choudhury.harlal@epa.gov), 513-569-7536
The Superfund Health Risk Technical Support Center (STSC) supports Superfund risk assessors, reviewing and developing exposure and toxicity factors that allow for more accurate risk estimates. Much of STSC’s activities focus on developing new and updated peer-reviewed provisional toxicity values that describe dose-response toxicological relationships. External peer review of the provisional toxicity values started in 1999. The STSC also provides user support through the STSC Hotline, as well as on-site expertise reviews. All assistance is provided on a rapid turnaround basis.

Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM)
Contact: Frank Stancil (stancil.frank@epa.gov), 706-355-8100
The goals of the Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM) are to develop, maintain and apply state-of-the-science technical tools – including multimedia exposure and ecosystem response simulation models, environmental databases, data analysis packages, tool application strategies and advanced educational materials – in the environmental sciences.

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Web Sites and Links

These links point to Web sites that address contaminated sediments or other tools that sediment stakeholders may find useful.

New Web Sites

Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI) Points of Contact:

Steve Ells (ells.steve@epa.gov)
703-603-8822
 

Matt Lambert (lambert.matthew@epa.gov)
703-603-7174

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