All About PFAS: Emerging Contaminants That Are Everywhere

July 29, 2019

Forester University recently hosted Dr. Viraj deSilva P.E., BCEE of SCS Engineers in their well-received educational webinar “All About PFAS: Emerging Contaminants That Are Everywhere.”

Dr. deSilva teaches you all you need to know to protect yourself and your community from PFAS—from generation, formation, and environmental release to sampling and analysis.

He provides an in-depth overview of the treatment of PFAS in sources that do not currently have maximum containment levels, such as landfill leachate, wastewater, surface water, and groundwater.

This course covers nomenclature, chemistry, sources, exposure, and future concerns as well as discusses the current regulatory status of these contaminants.

Learning Objectives

• Identify sources of PFAS contamination and associated health concerns
• Learning the chemical properties of PFAS compounds and why they are hard to degrade
• Taking an inventory of detected PFAS compounds in landfill leachate, wastewater, and drinking water
• Discovering methods used to analyze PFAS samples
• Discussing the current regulatory status of PFAS chemicals
• Exploring the treatment methods of PFAS compounds and managing waste streams from these treatment processes
• Comparing PFAS concentrated residual management options and associated issues

We encourage our readers to see the webinar on Forester University’s website. Credits: 1 PDH / 0.1 CEU. Forester offers registration savings to groups. Register here.

Additional Resources with Links – click to read

• Leachate Treatment, a landfill case study
• The Environmental Dangers of PFAS and Technologies for Removing Them, WasteAdvantage Magazine
• Airports, Industrial Sites, and Landfills Are Responding to State Plans Following EPA’s PFAS Action Plan
• Liquids Management website and link to wastewater treatment case studies and treatment solutions brochure