Sponsors

THEMES

• Environment protection and management legislation of soil and groundwater.
• Classification and guidelines of groundwater.
• Soil quality criteria.
• Zoning and control of land use.
• Integrated groundwater monitoring.
• Hydrogeological cartography and geo-referenced models.
• Chemical and microbiological analysis on underground environment.
• Solid waste disposal.
• Effluent disposal.
• Service stations control.
• Dredged material disposal.
• WTP and WWTP sludge disposal.
• Agriculture and groundwater.
• Groundwater resources management.
• Groundwater control and management experiences from other countries.
• Contaminated areas management.
• Contaminated areas assessment: specific techniques and approaches
• Contaminants behavior: DNAPLs and LNAPLs, hydrocarbons, halogenated solvents, PAHs, PCBs, POPs, Pesticides, Herbicides, Metals, Nitrate and others.
• Restriction of groundwater use in contaminated areas.
• Risk assessment for remediation
• Contaminants concentration targets for remediation.
• Restoration of contaminated areas – brownfields
• Real estate market and the diagnosis of contaminated areas
• Microbiology of contaminated areas.
• Bioremediation
• Free phase remediation.
• Remediation techniques: established and innovative.
• Ex-Situ treatment of contaminated soil and groundwater.
• Applied geophysics to contaminated areas.
• Dams mine tailing.
• Acid drainage.
• Legal and economic control mechanisms of the underground environment.
• Role of regulators and inspectors (MMA, ANA, state and municipal agencies, CREA, MPs and Environmental Police).
• The new institutions of environment and water resource integrated management.