1. Steve Hilfiker Environmental Risk Management, Inc. (ERMI) www.ermi.net
2nd Annual Winter Water Seminar
Session IV Groundwater Remediation:
Monitored Natural Attenuation
as a
Remedial Strategy
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Steve Hilfiker Environmental Risk Management, Inc. (ERMI)

2. Monitoring Monitoring
Inland Protection Trust Fund / Program Dollars:
One of the best uses: NAM (if attenuating)
One of the worst uses: NAM (if not attenuating)

3. Inland Protection Trust Fund (IPTF)
(1)(g)
… the PRP must be implemented in a manner that reduces costs and improves the efficiency of rehabilitation activities to reduce the significant backlog…
… and the corresponding threat to the public health, safety, and welfare, water resources, and the environment.

4. Health Program We must protect our most valuable resource: Drinking Water

5. Florida ranks first in the number of people drinking groundwater.
Reliance on Groundwater
Florida ranks first in the number of people drinking groundwater.
(~ 90% of population, over 15,000,000 residents)

6. Cleanup Program Tens of Thousands of Decisions made by Lenders &
Property Owners
Relying on the Program

7. 376.308(5) 30 Years of Real Estate Decisions
… no person who owns… a facility… eligible for restoration funding from the IPTF… shall be subject to … compel rehabilitation in advance of commitment of restoration funding in accordance with a site’s priority ranking…
… or to pay for the costs of rehabilitation of environmental contamination resulting from a discharge of petroleum products that is eligible for restoration funding…

8. Balance Risk Management and Economic Development How to balance all of these program objectives?

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