Upcoming & Recent Activities

USGS hosted scientists from EPA HQ, Regions 1-4 and from State environmental agencies from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland on 25 September 2008 for a one-day workshop at the USGS NJ Water Science Center. More information is available here.

USGS Fact Sheet 2007-3074 "Contamination in fractured-rock aquifers; research at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey" is available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3074/.

Project scientists presented research results at the SERDP "Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop" in Washington, D.C., December 4-6, 2007. Information about the Symposium & Workshop is available at SERDP. USGS presentations included:

• Kinetics of DCE and VC Mineralization Under Anoxic Conditions -- Paul Bradley
• First Things First--Investigating DNAPL Contaminated Fractured Rock Aquifers -- Pierre Lacombe
• Characterizing Spatial Heterogeneity in Fractured Rock to Evaluate Mass Removal of TCE, DCE, and Vinyl Chloride at the Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, NJ -- Allen Shapiro

The project hosted a "Workshop on Fate, Transport, and Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Sedimentary Rocks at the Former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey" on Wednesday, 26 September 2007, at the 2007 NGWA/U.S. EPA, Fractured Rock Conference -- State of the Science and Measuring Success in Remediation, in Portland, Maine. View the Workshop Flyer (pdf) or see more details on this and other USGS research at the conference.

Allen Shapiro presented a poster on "Distribution, Transport, and Biodegradation of TCE, DCE, and Vinyl Chloride in Fractured Sedimentary Rocks at the Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey" at the SERDP/ESTCP Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop, Washington, D.C., November 28-30, 2006.

The project hosted a Field Trip "Geologic, Hydrogeologic, and Biogeochemical Controls on Natural and Enhanced Degradation of Industrial Solvents in Fractured Rocks" on Thursday, 26 October 2006, at the 2006 National Meeting of the Geological Society of America, in Philadelphia. More details are available at our Field Trip page.

Allen Shapiro and Frank Chapelle convened a session on Physical, Chemical, and Biological Controls on Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Rock, at the 2006 Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Abstracts for the seven NAWC presentations are available on the session web site.

Preliminary results of rock core sampling for TCE and other VOC's were presented at the National Ground Water Association's Conference on Eastern Regional Ground Water Issues, 18-19 September 2006, in Portland, Maine.