State remediation group elects chair

The State Coalition for the Remediation of Drycleaners (SCRD) selected Dick DeZeeuw of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality as its new chairperson during the group’s fall 2001 meeting in October.

DeZeeuw will lead SCRD until fall 2003. The full group generally meets twice a year at various locations around the United States. The fall meeting was held in Portland, OR.

SCRD members are state governments that have established programs to fund remediation of drycleaning sites. Current member states include Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

The coalition was established in 1998 and operates with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Technology Innovation Office and the National Ground Water Association. Among its activities, SCRD:

• Provides a forum for the exchange of information and the discussion of both technical and implementation issues related to state drycleaner programs.

• Shares information and lessons learned with states that do not have drycleaner-specific programs.

• Serves as a resource for drycleaner remediation issues.

• Encourages the use of innovative technologies in drycleaner remediation.

In addition to election of a new chairperson, the October meeting agenda focused on in situ biological degradation of perchloroethylene and other chlorinated solvents found at drycleaner sites. SCRD members heard presentations about four technologies for stimulating in situ bioremediation and witnessed demonstrations of two of these products at a contaminated drycleaner site near Portland.

Summaries of the groups meetings proceedings are available via the Internet on the SCRD web site: www.drycleancoalition.org. The web site also has information and reports on the group’s work to date, including a summary of state programs for remediation of contaminated drycleaning sites and analyses of various remediation techniques that have been used on drycleaning sites.

For additional information about SCRD, contact Dick DeZeeuw, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, at dezeeuw.dick@deq.state.or.us.


	State remediation group elects chair The State Coalition for the Remediation of Drycleaners (SCRD) selected Dick DeZeeuw of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality as its new chairperson during the group’s fall 2001 meeting in October. DeZeeuw will lead SCRD until fall 2003. The full group generally meets twice a year at various locations around the United States. The fall meeting was held in Portland, OR. SCRD members are state governments that have established programs to fund remediation of drycleaning sites. Current member states include Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The coalition was established in 1998 and operates with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Technology Innovation Office and the National Ground Water Association. Among its activities, SCRD: • Provides a forum for the exchange of information and the discussion of both technical and implementation issues related to state drycleaner programs. • Shares information and lessons learned with states that do not have drycleaner-specific programs. • Serves as a resource for drycleaner remediation issues. • Encourages the use of innovative technologies in drycleaner remediation. In addition to election of a new chairperson, the October meeting agenda focused on in situ biological degradation of perchloroethylene and other chlorinated solvents found at drycleaner sites. SCRD members heard presentations about four technologies for stimulating in situ bioremediation and witnessed demonstrations of two of these products at a contaminated drycleaner site near Portland. Summaries of the groups meetings proceedings are available via the Internet on the SCRD web site: www.drycleancoalition.org. The web site also has information and reports on the group’s work to date, including a summary of state programs for remediation of contaminated drycleaning sites and analyses of various remediation techniques that have been used on drycleaning sites. For additional information about SCRD, contact Dick DeZeeuw, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, at dezeeuw.dick@deq.state.or.us.