This comprehensive 4-day course covers everything from environmental drilling and
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| Students Learn How to Install Ground-Water Monitoring Wells Using Direct-Push Technology and Hollow-Stem Augers During Field Session #1 |
monitoring well placement, design, construction and development to correct procedures for sampling ground water from monitoring wells.
In the first 2 days of this course, instructors focus on site characterization for efficient well location, drilling methods available for installing boreholes, well design and development techniques to ensure sediment-free samples, multi-level monitoring and sampling systems, and more than 20 ASTM Standard Practices for site characterization, environmental drilling, well construction and well development.
In the final 2 days of this course, instructors focus on ground-water sampling issues, including: preparation of effective ground-water sampling and analysis plans, field QA/QC procedures, water-level measurement methods, the science behind ground-water sampling, purging and sampling methodologies (including low-flow purging and no-purge sampling), field indicator parameter analysis, selection and operation of sampling devices, sample collection and pretreatment procedures, handling and shipment of samples, and documentation of sampling events. More than 15 ASTM Standard Practices on these topics are covered in detail.
