CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS CONFERENCE

Climate Change Resilience Adaptation
Environmental Justice

APRIL 11, 2023

Miller Hall

World Forestry Center

Portland, Oregon

In Person Event

Early registration ends Friday March 31, 2023

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Overview


Increasingly, there is recognition that remediation approaches will need to incorporate climate change resilience adaptation. Sediment remediation sites are also concentrated within Industrial areas that tend to be those with racial and economic disparities (communities with environmental justice concerns). The White House and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have placed Environmental Justice (EJ) at the center of U.S. federal strategy and states are adopting policies to address these disparities.

Speakers for this program will (1) address the potential impacts of climate change on sediment cleanup sites and discuss ways the remediation approach can incorporate climate change resilience adaptation and (2) explore opportunities and successes to apply EJ principles in the investigation and remediation of contaminated sediment sites. Each session will provide the perspectives of consultants, regulators, industry, and legal counsel, all of whom have been working on sites where considerations of climate change are important and in close proximity to communities with EJ concerns.


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Agenda

8:30-9:00 ~ Onsite Registration

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MORNING PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION 
9:00-12:00 ~ Water Quality Big Picture 

What are the biggest water quality challenges facing us right now, and what should we do about them? Is the Clean Water Act effectively addressing critical water quality issues?

12:00-1:00 ~ LUNCH

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AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLES 
1:00-2:30 ~ Clean Water Act

Where have we been and where do we need to go? State and Federal Regulatory Programs, NPDES Permits, TMDLs, Water Quality Standards, Pre-Treatment, Water Quality Management Plans and more

3:00-4:30 ~ Toxics

What do we know and what should we do about it? What are the risks to human health? What is the latest science on toxics and other emerging contaminants?

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Moderators

PHILIP SPADARO
TIG Environmental

BRIDGETTE R. DeSHIELDS
Integral Consulting

Opening Keynote Speaker


Representative KEN HELM
Oregon State Legislature,
House District 34
Chair, Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, and Water

KATHLEEN FEEHAN GEORGE  
Tribal Councilwoman, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde 
Chair, Oregon Environmental Quality Commission 

JENNIFER WIGAL
Administrator, Water Quality Division
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

DANIEL OPALSKI
Director,
Water Division
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10

RIAN SALLEE
Director,
Vancouver Field Office
Washington Department of Ecology

ELISE GRANEK, PhD
Professor
Portland State University

DIANNE BARTON, PhD
Water Quality Coordinator,
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Chair, National Tribal Toxics Task Force

DAVID FARRER, PhD
Public Health Toxicologist
Oregon Health Authority

KEVIN MASTERSON
Stony Creek Consulting

GENE FOSTER
Water Quality Manager
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

MICHELLE WILCOX
Columbia River Basin Grant Program
US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10

CORISSA HOLMES
Environmental Programs Supervisor
City of Redmond
Chair, Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies

BJ CUMMINGS

Author

The River that Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish

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Community Engagement Manager

University of Washington Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment (UW EDGE Center)

BJ CUMMINGS

Author

The River that Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish

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Community Engagement Manager

University of Washington Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment (UW EDGE Center)


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The conference will be held in Miller Hall at the beautiful World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon. Located next to the Oregon Zoo, the World Forestry Center has plenty of on-site parking and easy light rail access.

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Registration


CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS CONFERENCE
APRIL 11, 2023

Early registration ends Friday March 31, 2023


REGISTER