Archives by Tag 'water quality'
Guadalupe Oil Field Cleanup, San Luis Obispo County, California (1997-2002)
CONCUR designed and mediated a dispute resolution process leading to clean-up of the Guadalupe Oil Field for the State of California and Union Oil of California (UNOCAL). The site is located in central California’s San Luis Obispo County. Over the 40-year life of the oil field, more than 15 million gallons of petroleum products gradually [...]
Baldwin Park: Mediating a Multi-party Dispute on the Remediation of a Superfund Site/Contaminated Drinking Water Supply (2000-2001)
In March of 2000, CONCUR was asked to assist the U.S. EPA, the Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster, and the Aerojet General Corporation in mediating negotiations over the containment and cleanup of contaminants at the Baldwin Park Operable Unit (BPOU) of the San Gabriel Valley Superfund sites. The BPOU is located just east of Los [...]
CALFED: Devising an Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Program (1998-2001)
Between 1998 and 2001, CONCUR successfully mediated a dialogue among agricultural, environmental and agency interests working to structure a program that elicits and assures efficient agricultural water management practices. The effort, known as the Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Steering Committee and part of the federal-state initiative known as the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, helped resolve longstanding [...]
Reducing Copper Pollution in the South San Francisco Bay (1993-1994)
In late 1993 and early 1994, CONCUR facilitated the South Bay Copper Reduction Dialogue. The negotiation was convened to meet the terms of permits imposed by the Regional Water Quality Control Board to reduce the combined discharge of copper from the cities of Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley Nonpoint Source [...]
East Bay Municipal Utility District Cleanup of Penn Mine
In the early 1990s, CONCUR advised East Bay Municipal Untility District (EBMUD) staff on structuring the negotiation over the cleanup of Penn Mine, an abandoned copper-zinc mine in northwestern Calaveras County, California. Historically, contaminated surface runoff from the Penn Mine flowed directly into the Mokelumne River. Completion of upstream and downstream dams decreased the streamflow [...]
Casmalia Superfund Site
CONCUR facilitated a technical forum for EPA Region IX, PRPs, and the Regional Water Quality Control Board on toxic waste cleanup options for the at the Casmalia Superfund site. Specific issues addressed and clarified included the methodologies for calculating rates of contaminant migration, the structure of aquifers and aquitards, and procedures for risk assessment.
Cleaning Up PCBs in the Hudson River and Raritan Estuary, New York (1987)
The CONCUR partners mediated a complex dialogue under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences on the question of managing PCBs in the ocean region known as the New York Bight. This dialogue included ten facilitated meetings over 18 months, with contributions by 20 scientific advisors and participation by 22 federal, state and [...]
Land Use and Wetland Policy Framework, Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan, the San Francisco Estuary Project (1989-1992)
CONCUR facilitated an agreement on a policy framework in a series of working group meetings to guide the linkage between watershed protection and land use planning in the 12-county region embraced by the Estuary Project. Parties in the Land Use negotiating group included the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, the Building [...]