Title: |
Systematic Planning: A Case Study for Hazardous Waste Site Investigations
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Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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Country: |
USA
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Year: |
2006 |
Availability: |
EPA 240-B-06-004
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Author 1/Producer: |
US EPA
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Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Site investigation-->Reporting Contaminated land-->Site investigation-->Sampling and analysis Contaminated land-->Site investigation-->Sampling strategy
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Short description: |
his document describes the
Data Quality Objectives (DQO) process in a decision-making
situation. The case study shows how application of the DQO
process leads to sound data collection techniques, sampling
methods, and analysis of the results for decision-making.
Elementary Data Quality Assessment is used to draw conclusions
from the results. The case study is presented in two parts--a
Preliminary Investigation followed by a Remedial Investigation--
that correspond to the general stages of data collection and analysis
in an environmental investigation. With each investigation,
information is presented according to the three stages of EPA's
Quality System: planning, implementation, and assessment. The
case study demonstrates how the study team succeeded in
establishing the nature and extent of site contamination and
contaminants of potential concern during the Preliminary
Investigation, which provided the data necessary to support a well-
focused, statistically based sampling campaign to complete the
subsequent Remedial Investigation (February 2006, 67 pages).
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 04/11/2006
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