Scientists love a good challenge, however, and some of the world's foremost authorities on the subject will gather Sept. 13-15 in Portland, Maine, to tackle how to detect, monitor and clean up contamination in fractured rock. The Fractured Rock Conference: State of the Science and Measuring Success in Remediation is sponsored by the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“It's elusive to monitor contaminants in fractured rock. Some say once it gets into the rock, we'll never get it out,” says Robert Masters of NGWA. “We don't believe this is always the case, and the goal of this conference is to advance the efficiency of remediation of ground water at fractured rock sites.”