Customizing EQuIS to
Manage Soil Vapor
Intrusion Data
Chris Mickle
ICEDM Conference – Portland Oregon
May 14, 2013
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Topics
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Introduction to Soil Vapor Intrusion
Best Practices for Customizing EQuIS
Database and EDD Changes
SVI Data Workflow
SVI Data Collection Form Demo
Documentation and Acknowledgements
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Introduction to Soil Vapor
Intrusion Data
New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) - Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental Exposure
Investigation. "Guidance for Evaluating Soil Vapor Intrusion in the State of New York" (NYSDOH – October 2006).
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Soil Vapor Port Installation
• Geoprobe drilling
• Insert Teflon-lined tubing
• Fill borehole with at least six inches of
sand surrounding the vapor sampling
implant
• Seal remaining depth of the borehole with
Bentonite
• The Bentonite seal must set for at least 24
hours before soil gas sampling can occur
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Soil Vapor Port Installation
• Permanent Soil Gas Ports
– Well mount and swage lock
• Temporary Soil Gas Ports
– Excess tubing is plugged
• Sub slab vapor port installations
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Soil Vapor Sampling Equipment
• Flow regulator
• SUMMA Canister
• Low flow pumps for purging soil vapor
ports and tubing
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Soil Vapor Sampling QA/QC
• Collect field duplicates every 20 samples
• Helium Tracer Tests
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Sampling Area Observations
• Penetrations on floors
• Stains from chemical spills
• Chemical containing products
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Best Practices for Customizing
EQuIS
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Review subject matter documentation
Interview system users
Review field data collection forms
Define requirements
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Best Practices for Customizing
EQuIS
• Use staff knowledgeable in the EQuIS
database schema
• Prepare entity relationship diagrams and
object models to reflect current and
proposed database structure
• Work with EarthSoft to implement
database changes
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Database and EDD Changes
• New tables replaced existing building and
task parameter tables to meet these needs
– Buildings can have multiple inspections on
different dates
– Parameter codes are associated with buildings
(subfacilities)
– Subfacilities can contain many buildings
– An outdoor sample can be assigned to
multiple buildings
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Database and EDD Changes
• One outdoor sample for more than one
building.
New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) - Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental Exposure
Investigation. "Guidance for Evaluating Soil Vapor Intrusion in the State of New York" (NYSDOH – October 2006).
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EDD Modifications
Before
After
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SVI Form Workflow
Check in EDP
Complete in field
Return paper copy
to office
E-mail NYENVDATA
Save PDF
Include in reports and
eDocs submission
Complete form in
office
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SVI Form Demo
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Documentation
• NYSDEC Soil Vapor Intrusion Guidance:
– http://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/2588.html
• NYSDOH Soil Vapor Intrusion Guidance:
– http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/indoors
/vapor_intrusion/
• NYSDEC EDD Manual and SVI Form:
– http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/62440.html
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Acknowledgements
• NYSDEC
– Elaine Zuk – New York State Information Technology Services
(ITS) Chief Environmental Information Management Section
Lead
– Andrea Greco – ITS Project Manager and Chair of EQuIS
Steering Committee
– Gerard Burke – Division of Environmental Remediation (DER)
Bureau E, Section A Leader
– Daniel Eaton – DER Project Manager for Environmental
Information Management System (EIMS) EQuIS Implementation
Project
– Heidi Dudek – Former DER Project Manager for (EIMS) EQuIS
Implementation Project
– Eric Hausamann – DER Project Manager – Soil Vapor Intrusion
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Acknowledgements
• EarthSoft
– Janet Magurn – President of EarthSoft
– Kristin Garboski – NYSDEC Client Service Manager
– Mat Weaver – EarthSoft Chief Technical Officer and
Principal Developer and Database Architect
• The CDM Smith Environmental Data Management
Group and Soil Vapor Intrusion Project Team
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Questions and Thank You!
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