Go to the EPA Clue-in Site and pick one of the Technology Focus Areas in bold (The others we will look at next week):
Air Sparging (33 resources)
Bioreactor Landfills
Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvents (41 resources)
Bioventing/Biosparging (27 resources)
Electrokinetics: Electric Current Technologies
Fracturing (16 resources)
Ground-Water Circulating Wells (24 resources)
In Situ Flushing (36 resources)
In Situ Oxidation (27 resources)
Multi-Phase Extraction (31 resources)
Natural Attenuation (48 resources)
Permeable Reactive Barriers (59 resources)
Phytoremediation (45 resources)
Remediation Optimization
Soil Vapor Extraction (46 resources)
Soil Washing
Solvent Extraction
Thermal Desorption (25 resources)
Thermal Enhancements
Go to the Group Discussion Board and post the name of the Focus Area. If someone else has picked it already, you have to choose another area - first come, first serve. So you will want to check and post before you do much work. Then look around the Focus Area. There are lots of dead ends on this site, it is getting stale, but there is still a lot of good stuff. Most Areas have a citizen's guide, a one page description of the technology. This is much too simple for our work, but look at it to understand the type of literature you might want for a public meeting about proposed technology. Then find one technical article on the site and one case study. From those resources and what you learned in the book and my slides, write a 4 or 5 paragraph description of the technology. If you want to search more or different sites, that's OK, but you should not need to. Then post your paper as an attachment to a new thread in the Discussion Board. Now before you sit back snug and happy with your technology, read at least two other student's papers. Comment on those papers with the idea, since your technology is clearly better, what might be wrong with the technology of the other students. Of course your technology might not fit their applications, but you can find issues with theirs anyway.