EBC Site Remediation Program
Nanotechnology: Applications for Environmental Remediation
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
E. L. Harvey & Sons, Inc.
68 Hopkinton Road
Westborough, Massachusetts
AGENDA
8:00 a.m.
Welcome
Daniel K. Moon, President, EBC
Introduction Carl Shapiro - Program Chair
President, Avidar Environmental Consulting & Engineering LLC
8:10 a.m.
Nanoremediation: Potential Human and Environmental Risks
 Stephen R. Clough, Ph.D., DABT, Senior Toxicologist, Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
8:35 a.m.
Nanomaterials: Considerations For Their Safe Utilization
 Rick Reibstein, MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs,
Office of Technical Assistance
9:00 a.m.
A Patented Green-Synthesized Nanoscale Iron Activator for Remedial
Applications
 Geeta Dahal, Environmental Engineer, VeruTEK Technologies
9:25 a.m.
Golder’s Project Experience with Nano Scale Zero Valent Iron
 Frank Lilley, LSP, Senior Consultant, Golder Associates Inc.
10:00 a.m.
Adjourn
PROGRAM CHAIR
Carl Shapiro, LSP, President
Avidar Environmental Consulting & Engineering, LLC
220 Forbes Road, Suite 405, Braintree, MA 02184
(781) 848-1114 // Cell: (781) 726-2518 // cshapiro@avidarco.com
Mr. Shapiro is the President and CEO of Avidar Environmental Consulting and Engineering, LLC in
Braintree, Massachusetts, with projects for environmental remediation, facility development and
construction oversight extending from New England through the Mid-Atlantic States. He served as
President of the LSP Association in 2009 and continues to work closely with LSPA and MassDEP in
development of the role of the Licensed Site Professional in site compliance, management, and
closure.
Mr. Shapiro is currently working with MassDEP in development of field methods to address sites with
free-phase product (LNAPL) and has been an EPA Technical Contact for in-situ chemical oxidation
since 1993. He holds a Master’s Degree in Chemistry as well as a degree in Environmental Dispute
Resolution, providing Third Party oversight in negotiated settlements for property owners.
SPEAKERS
Stephen R. Clough, Ph.D., DABT, Senior Toxicologist
Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
340 Granite Street, 3rd Floor, Manchester, NH 03102-4004
(603) 391-3341 // Cell: (603) 703-3246 // SClough@HaleyAldrich.com
Dr. Steve Clough is a Senior Environmental Toxicologist at Haley & Aldrich, Inc. in Manchester, NH.
Since 1988, Steve has performed numerous ecological risk assessments under CERCLA, RCRA and
FIFRA, which require detailed exposure assessments and an in-depth knowledge of the
physicochemical parameters that affect them. Steve specializes in assessing the impact of point and
non-point sources to benthic communities in estuaries, rivers and streams and has a wide range of
experience using both active and passive surface water and sediment sampling techniques. In 1996,
Steve worked for NCASI, a pulp and paper trade group, where he conducted field studies to evaluate
the uptake of persistent hydrophobic compounds into both aquatic and terrestrial food chains
(including the derivation of site-specific bioavailability factors). Steve then rejoined environmental
consulting and has conducted numerous multipathway ecological risk assessments that require
formulating Conceptual Site Models, which are then validated in the field by sampling of sediment and
biota to determine the actual exposure and risk that environmental chemicals/stressors may pose to
key receptors. Steve earned a bachelor’s degree in pathobiology from the University of Connecticut
in 1976. After managing both mammalian and aquatic toxicology laboratories addressing product
development under TSCA, he attended the University of Michigan where he obtained a Master’s in
Water Quality (1983) and a Ph.D. in Toxicology (1988). Steve is also certified as a Diplomate of the
American Board of Toxicology.
Geeta Dahal, Environmental Engineer
VeruTEK Technologies Inc,
65 W Dudley Town Road, Ste. 100, Bloomfield, CT 06002
(860) 242-9800 // gdahal@verutek.com
Geeta Dahal is an Environmental Engineer at Verutek Technologies where she works to assist in lab
and field projects and helps facilitate the lab-field transition. She has been working at VeruTEK since
January, 2011. Geeta earned her Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University
of Connecticut and a Bachelors degree in Environmental Studies from Concordia College, Minnesota.
Her Master’s thesis work focused on the remedial applications of iron nano-particles.
Frank Lilley, LSP, Senior Consultant
Golder Associates Inc.
300 Friberg Parkway, Westborough, Massachusetts, USA 01581
(508) 366-5366 // Cell: (508) 341-4623 // Frank_Lilley@golder.com
Mr. Lilley is a Senior Consultant with Golder Associates and has been with the firm since 2007. Mr.
Lilley is Golder’s Westborough Massachusetts Office Manager. He is a Licensed Site Professional
(LSP) in Massachusetts and has over 30 years of experience in the Environmental Industry. Mr.
Lilley has a strong regulatory background in New England, having served with the USEPA Region I
CERCLA emergency response team and the MassDEP Air Quality Section. While at the USEPA he
served as Region I’s Alternative Remediation Technology Coordinator. Mr. Lilley is responsible for
management and technical direction for industrial and commercial environmental assessment,
remediation, treatment, and construction projects. Responsibilities include providing LSP oversight of
sites undergoing assessment and remediation under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan. He
specializes in development of cost effective closure strategies for impaired properties which utilize a
combination of remediation, risk assessment and institutional controls. Included in Mr. Lilley’s
remediation experience are: dual phase extraction, soil blending at PCE sites utilizing in-situ chemical
oxidation (ISCO), injection of ISCO at solvent and petroleum sites, source removal and installation of
direct contact caps, excavation and stabilization of sludges, mobile incineration, in-situ vitrification,
soil washing, thermal desorption, lead stabilization, and LNAPL removal.
Rick Reibstein
MA Office of Technical Assistance, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
9th floor, 100 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114
(617) 626-1062 // rick.reibstein@state.ma.us
Rick Reibstein has developed initiatives for the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction program since
its inception in 1989, first as Assistant Director of the Office of Technical Assistance, and after a
three-year detail as an enforcement attorney at U.S. EPA, as manager of outreach and policy. He
has also briefly worked as an enforcement attorney at Mass Department of Environmental Protection.
For OTA, Reibstein initiated the onsite technical assistance services the office provides, training
engineers in how to spot toxics use reduction opportunities and present options to companies. He
has also trained the U.S. EPA, Brazil, Chile, and others in establishing and conducting onsite
technical assistance for pollution prevention. He has taught environmental law and policy at BU since
1990 and is a member of the University’s Sustainability Steering Committee. In 2010 he founded the
Massachusetts Schools Sustainability Coordinators Roundtable, which promotes the sharing of
information among those working to improve the environmental performance of educational
institutions. Reibstein has published in Environmental Law Reporter, Pollution Prevention Review,
the Journal of Environmental Economics, and the International Journal of Cleaner Production.
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