Closing Remarks

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Closing Remarks
Day 2 DQO Training CourseModule 10

• Presenter Sebastian Tindall

445 PM - 500 PM (15 minutes)
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Module 10Closing Remarks Final Exam
Course Objectives

• To summarize key points made today

• Closing Remarks
• Final Exam
• Questions/feedback from the audience

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The DQO Process

• A systematic planning process based on the
  scientific method for the unambiguous defining of
  
• Environmental decision criteria
• Data requirements
• Error tolerances
• and the documentation/preservation of these
  details in a consistent, standardized format
  providing a defensible record of the decision
• Merrick Rick Blancq, USACE, Portland, OR

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Systematic Planning Doesnt Just Happen

• Haphazard approaches yield haphazard results

• Tactical approach to implementation
• Decision makers must work together
• Successful implementation model evolved as the
  DQO Process was used

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Tools Make the Job Easier

• Scoping Checklist

• DQO e-Workbook (electronic template)
• Standardized DQO Report format
• DQO Web Site
• DQO tools and materials
• Latest version of all of todays slides
• Visual Sample Plan (VSP)
• Download free software
• Data Quality Assessment tools also!

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Managing Uncertainty

• We are forced to make environmental decisions
  based on estimates

• Estimates always involve errors
• Errors in estimates are not mistakes
• If unmanaged, errors in estimates CAN lead to
  Decision Errors which ARE MISTAKES
• Decision Errors must be managed
• Identify
• Quantify
• Severe consequences of decision errors mandate a
  statistical basis

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Defensibility

• Comes from doing good science

• Requires documentation
• If it isnt written down, it didnt happen
• Use a standardized format
• We must employ the scientific method to make
  defensible decisions

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How Many Samples do I Need?

• REMEMBER

HETEROGENEITY IS THE RULE!
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Begin With the End in Mind
Contaminant Concentrations in the Spatial
Distribution of the Population
DATA
Population Frequency Distribution
?, ?, ?, ?
Correct Equation for n (Statistical Method)
Alternative Sample Designs
Optimal Sampling Design
How many samples do I need?
The end
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Logic to Assess Distribution and Calculate Number
of Samples
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Using the LBGR to Estimate n

• Normal FD

• Skewed FD

• Computer Simulations Badly skewed or Any FD
• Evaluate ? and ? errors to select n

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Project Planning Documents

• Work Plan

• DQO Report
• FSP
• Quality Assurance Project Plan
• HSP

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Project Planning Documents

• General project decision goals

• More detailed, technical project goals/decision
  rules (DQOs), that will guide project
  decision-making
• Goals for data quality (MQOs)
• How sampling representativeness will be ensured,
  and how sampling uncertainty will be controlled
• List of analytical technologies and methods
• QC protocols and criteria to demonstrate that
  data of known quality will be generated
• Description how data will be assessed and
  interpreted according to the decision rules

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Analytical Sub-sampling Natural
heterogeneity of the siteTotal Uncertainty
Uncertainty is Additive!
Remember the uncertainty is additive for all
steps in sampling and analysis
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Keys to success

• Sound technical basis
• Complete and thorough documentation

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FINAL EXAM
What is the DQO Process in a Nutshell?

• What is the Question?

• What is the Population?

• What is the Confidence required?

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TRIAD Systematic Planning

• Managing Uncertainty for Environmental Decision
  Making
• Systematic Planning in Environmental Decision
  Making
• http//www.doe.hanford.gov/dqo
• Sebastian Tindall
• Bechtel Hanford Inc.
• 3350 George Washington Way
• Richland, WA 99352
• [phone]
• sctindal_at_mail.bhi-erc.com

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TRIAD Dynamic Work Plans

• A Guideline
• for
• Dynamic Workplans and Field Analytics
• The Keys to Cost-Effective Site Characterization
  and Cleanup
• http//cluin.org/char1_edu.cfmdyna_work
• Albert Robbat, Jr.
• Tufts University, Chemistry Department
• Center for Field Analytical Studies and
  Technology
• Medford, Massachusetts, 02155
• tel [phone] and fax [phone]

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TRIAD On-Site Analysis

• Applying the Concept of Effective Data to
  Environmental Analyses for Contaminated Sites
• http//cluin.org/
• Deana M. Crumbling, M.S.
• Technology Innovation Office
• U.S Environmental Protection Agency
• 401 M Street, SW, Mail Code 5102G
• Washington, DC 20460
• [phone]
• Crumbling.Deana_at_epamail.epa.gov

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Sampling for Environmental Activities

• Charles Chuck Ramsey
• EnviroStat, Inc.,
• P.O. Box 636
• Fort Collins, CO 80522-0636
• [phone] Fax [phone]
• envirostat_at_home.com

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DQO ConsultantsPreparation Facilitation

• Mitzi Miller
• Environmental Quality Management (EQM)
• 1777 Terminal Drive
• Richland, WA 99352
• [phone] Fax [phone]
• eqmmitzi_at_owt.com

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DQO ConsultantsPreparation Facilitation

• Al Robinson
• Environmental Quality Management (EQM)
• 1777 Terminal Drive
• Richland, WA 99352
• [phone] Fax [phone]
• eqmmitzi_at_owt.com

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DQO ConsultantsEnvironmental Statistics

• Jim Davidson
• Davidson and Davidson, Inc.
• 8390 Gage Blvd., Suite 205
• Kennewick, WA 99336
• [phone]
• davidson_at_owt.com

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DOE EM-5/NAMP Sponsored Web Pages

• http/www.hanford.gov/dqo/
• http//dqo.pnl.gov/
• http//www.em.doe.gov/safetyhealth/3d/

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DQO Training Points of Contact

DQO Process Expert Sebastian TindallProgram
ManagerBechtel Hanford Inc. 3350 George
Washington WayRichland, WA 99352(509)
372-9195sctindal_at_mail.bhi-erc.com Visual
Sample Plan James R. Davidson, Jr. Davidson and
Davidson, Inc. 8390 Gage Blvd., Suite
205 Kennewick, WA 99336 Tel (509)
374-4498 davidson_at_owt.com
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Program POCs

• Elizabeth M. BowersDepartment of
  Energy/Richland Operations Office825 Jadwin
  AvenueRichland, WA 99352(509)
  373-9276Elizabeth_M_Liz_Bowers_at_rl.gov Dave
  BottrellDepartment of Energy/EM-5/NAMP19901
  Germantown RoadCloverleaf BuildingRoom
  1078Germantown, MD 20874-1290(301) 903-7251
  david.bottrell_at_em.doe.gov

Sebastian TindallProgram ManagerBechtel Hanford
Inc. 3350 George Washington WayRichland, WA
99352(509) 372-9195sctindal_at_mail.bhi-erc.com
Brent PulsipherProgram ManagerPacific Northwest
National Laboratories.2400 Stevens
DriveRichland, WA 99352(509) 375-3989
brent.pulsipher_at_pnl.gov
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Day 2 Training Credits

• Susan Blackburn, SAIC, Richland, WA
• Dave Blumenkranz, SAIC, Richland, WA
• Mitzi Miller, EQM, Richland, WA Knoxville, TN
• Al Robinson, EQM, Richland, WA
• Kelly Black, Neptune and Associates, Denver, CO
• Candy Hawk, Blue Sky Software, Richland, WA
• Mike Schwab, Bechtel Hanford, RL, WA
• Surajit Amrit, Bechtel Hanford, RL, WA

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VSP Acknowledgements

• John Wilson, PNNL
• Dick Gilbert, Nancy Hassig, Tim Schiebe, PNNL
• Don Singer, USGS
• Brent Pulsipher, PNNL

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How Many Samples do I Need?

• REMEMBER

HETEROGENEITY IS THE RULE!
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End of Day 2 Course

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• Thank you for your attention today.
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