Because of natural groundwater-surface water interactions throughout New Jersey, contaminated groundwater often adversely impacts important surface water bodies – streams, lakes, rivers, wetlands, oceans, and reservoirs. This pathway often presents LSRPs with difficult regulatory and technical challenges, with appropriate cost-effective solutions requiring critical knowledge of relevant science, data collection, and modeling for informed analysis and decision-making.
During this course, the rationale and requirements for the current (January 2016) “Characterization of Contaminated Ground Water Discharge to Surface Water Technical Guidance” will be presented briefly. A review of related technical concepts including relevant hydrogeologic principles, field methods, and modeling, will also be provided and will be further reinforced by a detailed presentation of two real-world case studies.