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The Complete Ground Water Monitoring Field Course Course Description |
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This comprehensive 5-day field course covers everything from environmental drilling and
In the first 2 1/2 days of this course, instructors focus on site characterization for efficient well location, drilling methods available for installing boreholes, well design techniques to ensure sediment-free samples, and ASTM Standard Practices for environmental drilling, well construction and well development. During the first half-day field session, students learn how to collect and use soil and ground-water samples and other information to characterize a site, install a small-diameter well using a direct-push rig, and sonic or hollow-stem auger drilling methods. In addition, students learn about multi-level monitoring and sampling systems. In the final 2 1/2 days of this course, instructors focus on ground-water sampling issues, including: preparation of effective ground-water sampling and analysis plans, field QA/QC procedures, water-level measurement methods, the science behind ground-water sampling, purging and sampling methodologies (including low-flow purging and no-purge sampling), field indicator parameter analysis, selection and operation of sampling devices, sample collection and pretreatment procedures, handling and shipment of samples, and documentation of sampling events. A second half-day field session focuses on all of the field practices and procedures used to effectively implement a ground-water sampling event for traditional sampling, low-flow purging and sampling, and no-purge sampling programs. Even if you are only involved in collecting samples from monitoring wells, you should attend this full 5-day course, because the design, construction and development of monitoring wells has a direct impact on the quality of ground-water samples you collect. |
