IDEM's New Remediation Closure Guide

Yesterday, fellow Monitoring Well bloggers Brianna Schroeder, Sean Hirschten, and I attended a presentation by Keramida's Steven Sittler on using IDEM's new Remediation Closure Guide.  The Remediation Closure Guide replaces the Risk Integrated System of Closure (RISC) guide that had been used since 2001.  Some of the important characteristics of the Remediation Closure Guide are that: remediation objectives have replaced hard and fast default closure levels; the Conceptual Site Model may lead to increased up-front costs but may reduce the amount of remediation needed; and the guide is intended to be flexible to allow for alternative remediation approaches.  It is important that environmental attorneys and other environmental professionals stay on top of these and other changes at IDEM.