Florida’s Linn elected
to lead clean-up group
to lead clean-up group
The State Coalition for the Remediation of
Drycleaners (SCRD) elected William Linn of the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection as its new chairperson
during the group’s Fall 2003 meeting in November. A
nine-year veteran of the Florida Drycleaning Solvent Cleanup
Program and a founding member of SCRD, Linn will chair SCRD for
one year.
Prior to his election, Linn served two
terms as chair of SCRD’s Project Management/Technical
Issues Subgroup and assisted in designing SCRD’s
drycleaner site profiles database, which is available on the
coalition’s web site (www.drycleancoalition.org). The site profiles provide users with a
consistent set of data about the remediation of specific
drycleaner sites throughout the United States that can help
them make more informed decisions related to cleanup of the
sites they manage.
He also authored “ Chemicals Used in
Drycleaning Operations,” a searchable, on-line tool, also
available on the SCRD web site, that contains current and
historical information on the types of chemicals —
solvents, other chemicals, pre-cleaning/spotting agents,
garment treatments, and solvent and equipment maintenance
materials — used in drycleaning operations to help
managers engaged in the assessment and remediation of
contaminated drycleaner sites and regulators conducting
compliance inspections at drycleaning facilities.
SCRD members are state governments that
have established programs to fund remediation of drycleaner
sites. Current member states include Alabama, Florida,
Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas 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. The organization’s mission is to
provide a forum for states to share programmatic, technical,
and environmental information to improve the remediation of
drycleaner sites. For more information about SCRD, visit the
web site or contact Bill Linn at william.linn@dep.state.fl.us.
 |
