This half-day workshop is designed to take environmental professionals beyond the traditional qualitative Conceptual Site Model (CSM) by adding an overlay of quantitative information that sharpens decisions and provides documented support that can be important to an LSRP’s, or other environmental professional’s, practice.
The Quantitative Conceptual Site Model (QCSM) approach provides the professional with a functional version of the CSM that can be used to guide investigations, assist in remedial design or test the effectiveness of a remedy, and can provide a documented, science-based tool for sound decision making.
The CSM has long been used by investigators, and described in regulatory guidance, as an integral part of environmental site investigation and remediation activities; providing site investigators, regulators, and other interested stakeholders with a tool to better understand site conditions, identify data needs, and make decisions regarding site cleanup planning and implementation.
But the traditional CSM typically qualitative in nature, consisting of narrative and/or pictorial descriptions of contamination sources and subsurface conditions at a contaminated site. The Quantitative Conceptual Model (QCSM) approach, which involves the merging of quantitative analysis results with the framework of a sound site conceptual model, provides a functional tool for sound decision making.