Waste Site Cleanup Projects

NEWMOA's Waste Site Cleanup Steering Committee meets regularly to plan and oversee the Association's waste site cleanup projects. Use the links below to view information about these efforts::

• Brownfields - Provides information on the activities of the NEWMOA Brownfields Workgroup. This group organizes training on a variety of priority topics. Some of these training opportunities are open to the consulting community. In addition, NEWMOA organizes annual meetings between the New England state brownfields programs and the EPA Region 1 Brownfields Team to discuss programmatic issues.

• Waste Site Cleanup Training - Provides information on waste site cleanup workshops and webinars. Some of these training opportunities are open to the consulting community.

• Contaminated Soils Management - Provides information on the activities of NEWMOA's Contaminated Soils Management Workgroup. This group is working on addressing management of excess soils with levels of contamination below commercial/industrial and/or residential waste site cleanup standards that are generated during construction, utility, brownfields, and waste site cleanup projects.

• Improving Site Investigation - Provides information about NEWMOA's efforts to improve the quality of the site characterizations performed by consultants, including links to the Site Investigation Matters and Improving Site Investigation brochures.

• Innovative Technology Advisory Opinions - Provides information about NEWMOA's efforts to promote the use of innovative site characterization methods, including links to advisory opinions on four technologies: immunoassay; x-ray fluorescence; gas chromatography (GC) field analysis; and diffusion bag samples.