Field Sampling Methods for Remedial Investigations

This second edition of a bestseller provides practical guidance on developing cost-effective and defensible environmental sampling programs to support site characterization, site remediation, and building decontamination and decommissioning in both chemical and radioactive environments. It features new methodologies for characterizing radioactive environments, statistical approaches for designing environmental investigations, and chemical characterization techniques. Up-to-date with the latest EPA guidelines, the text offers additional coverage of general media sampling, building material sampling, remote surveying, data verification and validation, and data quality assessment.

The book provides guidance on how to:

• Implement the US EPA’s latest Data Quality Objective’s procedure



• Prepare and maintain defensible field documentation



• Use quality control sampling, data verification, data validation, and data quality assessment to assure the data collected is of adequate quality and quantity for its intended use



• Properly decontaminate drilling and field sampling equipment



• Determine appropriate health and safety requirements



• Manage investigation-derived waste



• Properly prepare sample bottles for shipment