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PFAS EXPERTS SYMPOSIUM: STATEMENTS ON REGULATORY POLICY, CHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICS, TOXICOLOGY, TRANSPORT/FATE, AND REMEDIATION FOR PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) CONTAMINATION ISSUES
Simon, J.A., S. Abrams, T. Bradburne, D. Bryant, M. Burns, D. Cassidy, J. Cherry, et al.
Remediation 29(4):31-48(2019)
Sixty members of the scientific, engineering, regulatory, and legal communities assembled for the PFAS Experts Symposium on May 20-21, 2019 to discuss issues related to PFAS based on the quickly evolving developments of regulations, chemistry and analytics, transport and fate concepts, toxicology, and remediation technologies. The symposium created a venue for experts with various specialized skills to provide opinions and trade perspectives on existing and new approaches to PFAS assessment and remediation in light of lessons learned managing other contaminants encountered over the past four decades. Concerns included time, expense, and complexity required to remediate PFAS sites and whether the challenges of PFAS warrant alternative approaches to site cleanups, including the notion that adaptive management and technical impracticability waivers may be warranted at sites with expansive PFAS plumes. A paradigm shift towards receptor protection rather than broadscale groundwater/aquifer remediation may be appropriate. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rem.21624
Remediation 29(4):31-48(2019)
Sixty members of the scientific, engineering, regulatory, and legal communities assembled for the PFAS Experts Symposium on May 20-21, 2019 to discuss issues related to PFAS based on the quickly evolving developments of regulations, chemistry and analytics, transport and fate concepts, toxicology, and remediation technologies. The symposium created a venue for experts with various specialized skills to provide opinions and trade perspectives on existing and new approaches to PFAS assessment and remediation in light of lessons learned managing other contaminants encountered over the past four decades. Concerns included time, expense, and complexity required to remediate PFAS sites and whether the challenges of PFAS warrant alternative approaches to site cleanups, including the notion that adaptive management and technical impracticability waivers may be warranted at sites with expansive PFAS plumes. A paradigm shift towards receptor protection rather than broadscale groundwater/aquifer remediation may be appropriate. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rem.21624
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