EnvE 326

Environmental Site Assessment


Description

Protection of human/ecological receptors from contaminant exposure. Key topics: risk management frameworks (guideline setting/use of standards for air, water, and soil); environmental investigation strategies (sample program design and collection techniques, data interpretation); environmental site assessment standards; conceptual contaminated site modeling; contaminant transport calculations. Case studies.
Prerequisite: ENV E 220. Credit cannot be obtained for both ENV E 322 and ENV E 326.

Learning Outcomes

- Use risk management frameworks to identify quality standards and endpoints for environmental design processes.
- Describe common sources of subsurface contamination and associated contaminant characteristics.
- Explain the purpose and general methodology of Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments (ESA).
- Design an ESA plan to investigate a contaminated site.
- Use environmental investigation protocols to design sampling programs, guide sample collection, and data interpretation.
- Develop a conceptual site model through the preparation of soil cross sections, groundwater elevation contour maps, groundwater flow calculations, and contaminant transport calculations.

Lecture Seminar Lab Credits Total AU
3 0/1 0/1 3 37.8
M % NS % CS % ES % ED %
0 0 0 50 50

None defined



Undergraduate Program(s)

2025/2026 - Fall - Enve-coop - Year 4
2025/2026 - Fall - Enve - Year 3
2024/2025 - Fall - Enve-coop - Year 4
2024/2025 - Fall - Enve - Year 3
2023/2024 - Fall - Enve-coop - Year 4
2023/2024 - Fall - Enve - Year 3
2022/2023 - Fall - Enve-coop - Year 4
2022/2023 - Fall - Enve - Year 3
2021/2022 - Fall - Enve-coop - Year 4
2021/2022 - Fall - Enve - Year 3
2020/2021 - Fall - Enve-coop - Year 4
2020/2021 - Fall - Enve - Year 3

Sections & Respective Instructors

A1 - 2026/2027 - Fall - Haoran Yu
A1 - 2025/2026 - Fall - Selma Guigard
A1 - 2024/2025 - Fall - Selma Guigard
A1 - 2023/2024 - Fall - Lisa Brown
A1 - 2022/2023 - Fall - Jeff Farner
A1 - 2021/2022 - Fall - Daryl McCartney
A1 - 2020/2021 - Fall - Daryl McCartney