In the modern world, contaminants in sediments, soils, and groundwater have become a chronic global environmental and economic challenge. Well-educated professionals and novel solutions are needed to responsibly resolve the impacts of past, current, and future practices. Primary activities driving subsurface environmental concerns include energy, agriculture, manufacturing, defense, and pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, growing global use of groundwater for water supply, driven by population growth and climate change, is making responsible resolution of subsurface environmental issues all the more urgent.

Come learn with RMAEP about what the CSU Center for Contaminant Hydrology is doing to help scientists address these challenges. The tour will spotlight some of CSU’s active research in the groundwater remediation world, with projects involving hydrocarbons, 1,4-dioxane, and PFAS, as well as measurements using in situ ORP sensors.  Have you ever seen an indoor river?  The hydraulics lab tour will show you how this can be done – and this is not a “lazy” river.  

Location:  4451 Laporte Avenue (last building on the left, beneath the Soldier Canyon Dam).  We will meet at the main entrance at 5:00 PM, on the north side of the building.

The tour will conclude with a social at Stodgy’s, which is just down the road from the ERC.