Upcoming CREEC Events:

CREEC meeting (December 15, 2011).   Download Presentations:  Bill Battaglin - CREEC Treasurer.  Meeting Introduction and CREEC Report.   John McEncroe, City of Morrison, “Point-of-Use, The Final Barrier” and Jessica Torrey, National Institute of Standards and Technology, “Materials Challenges for Next-Generation Water Treatment”.  For more information on Jessica's talk, please contact her directly at:  Jessica D. Torrey, PhD, Materials Research Engineer, NIST- Materials Reliability Division, 325 Broadway, MS 853, Boulder, CO 80305, (303) 497-6856, jessica.torrey@nist.gov 

Other Upcoming Meetings

Please remember that CREEC is supporting a 2 1/2-day workshop on Contaminants of Emerging Concern, sponsored by AWRA on June 25-27, 2012 in Denver, CO. More information about this conference and the call for abstract can be at www.AWRA.org .

Groundwater Resources Association of California:  Compounds of Emerging Concern in Groundwater Symposium.  February 7 - 8, 2012 • Concord, California.  GRA is pleased to announce this Call for Abstracts for its upcoming symposium on compounds of emerging concern in groundwater. This two-day event in Northern California will focus on key groundwater contaminants including hexavalent chromium, 1,2,3-TCP, 1,4-dioxane, perfluorinated compounds, nanomaterials and more. The symposium will feature presentations on the technical and institutional challenges posed by the presence of these compounds in the environment. Background information including history of use, sources in the environments, nationwide occurrence, analytical methods, environmental fate and transport, and technologies for removal from soil and groundwater will be presented for compounds of emerging concern. Case studies focusing on demonstrated cleanup successes and failures will also be presented. Finally, standard of care issues and federal and state drinking water standards will be discussed.  Experts from academia, regulatory agencies, consulting, industry and the legal arena will participate in speaker and posters sessions that will be held in conjunction with the Symposium. Confirmed invited speakers include the following:

Past CREEC Events

Thursday June 9, 2011 from 1:00 to ~3:00 PM at Northern Water, 220 Water Ave., Berthoud, CO 80513.  Please RSVP to bill@creec.net or Esther Vincent evincent@ncwcd.org if you plan on attending.  The guest speakers for this meeting will be:  Thomas Borch, CSU, "Steroid Hormone Runoff from an Agricultural Field Applied with Municipal Biosolids" and Mark Murphy and Karl Hermann, EPA, "EPA Region 8 Monitoring and Analysis of PPCPs and Wastewater Indicators"

March 10, 2011, 2pm to 5pm, Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, 6450 York St., Denver, CO 80229.  To facilitate entry to the Installation, attendees must provide their name and affiliation to:  Admin@CREEC.net   Be sure to bring photo ID with you.  Speakers:  Dr. Larry Barber, USGS, Boulder, CO:  Sources of Emerging Contaminants - A Landscape-Based Perspective.  Larry Barber is a research geochemist with the USGS. For the past 25 years he has conducted research on the occurrence, fate, and transport of inorganic and organic compounds in natural waters.  A particular focus of his research is the effects of biologically active, consumer-product derived, trace-organic contaminants in municipal wastewaters on receiving aquatic ecosystems.  Kimberly Ross, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado - Boulder"  Molecular identification for microbial surveillance in municipal drinking water: A sequence-based view.

December 2, 2010 CREEC Meeting, Boulder, CO.  Presentations by Dr Djanette Khiari, Project Manager, Water Research Foundation, “An update on Water Research Foundation research on emerging contaminants” and Dr E Michael Thurman and Dr Imma Ferrer, Research Chemists, CU Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry, “Analysis of pharmaceuticals and personal care product in drinking water by advanced mass spectrometry techniques”.  Download Notes for Meeting.

September 30, 2010 CREEC Meeting was sponsored by Alan Vajda at the University of Colorado, Denver, in the Auraria Science Building.  Dr. Jeff Writer, UC Boulder, spoke on "The role of stream biofilms in controlling fate and transport of endocrine disrupting compounds in surface waters", and Alan Vajda, Assessing human-health challenges of EDCs in surface waters - Discussion of research needs and strategies. 

February 11, 2010 CREEC Meeting was sponsored Thomas Borch at Colorado State University (did a great job at making this work).  Theo Colborn, author of Our Stolen Future, spoke via phone from her home in Southwest Colorado on health effects, recent research, and the politics of the Kerry/Moran Bill.  Mike Focazio (USGS Office of Water Quality and Toxics Substances Hydrology Program) was snowed in on the East Coast, but convinced Ed Furlong (USGS Denver) to do his presentation about recent studies of contaminants of emerging concern by the USGS.  Copy of intro slides.