[CPEO-BIF] New book on Continuous Soil Gas Measurements

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From Everett & Associates
January 15, 2014

A New Book on Soil Gas & Vapor Intrusion from Dr. Lorne Everett -  
Continuous Soil Gas Measurements: Worst Case Risk Parameters

Our CEO, Dr. Lorne Everett has published a new book from ASTM,  
Continuous Soil Gas Measurements: Worst Case Risk Parameters. This  
compilation, coedited with Dr. Mark Kram of Groundswell Technologies,  
contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2013 ASTM symposium in  
Jacksonville, FL. The symposium, chaired by Dr. Everett, addressed  
methods for identifying and managing vapor intrusion risks. This  
topic is significant because dry cleaners, gasoline stations,  
refineries, fracking sites, landfills, machine shops, electronics  
manufacturers, airports, and many other facilities that use (and may  
spill) chemicals are at risk for vapor intrusion.

Articles in the book summarize state-of-the art thinking on vapor  
intrusion by an international team of authors from the USA, Canada,  
Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany and other nations. This extensive  
interest is driven by widespread observations that prevailing  
sampling programs may fail to fully characterize vapor intrusion  
problems due to extreme spatial and temporal variability of VOCs and  
methane at contaminated sites. A developing theme among environmental  
scientists and engineers is that vapor intrusion risks are dynamic  
and, therefore, vapor intrusion investigations should be, too.  
Ideally, investigations should involve continuous monitoring, instead  
of relying on just one or two discrete monitoring events.


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For the entire announcement, go to
http://www.everettassociates.net/article/4815-a-new-book-from-dr- 
lorne-everett

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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