CICEET Progress Report for the period 9/15/04 Through 3/15/05

Project Title: Sorptive clarification as an environmental technology to passively treat storm water from elevated transportation infrastructure
Principal Investigator(s): John Sansalone and Frank Cartledge

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Progress on Tasks
2. 90% complete
5. 80% complete (Kinetics analyses in process, isotherms largely complete)
6. 90% complete, results currently under analysis
8. 90% complete
11. 75% complete, in process
12. 75% complete, 1 manuscript accepted, 4 manuscripts in process (2 new manuscripts)

Difficulties Encountered
1. Finally re-gained power to operate site as of 10 March 2005
2. Multiple break-ins at site last Fall have thankfully not occurred again. A PhD student had a physical altercation with an individual who had broken into the site and now we send the students to the site in pairs. Multiple police reports made.

Anticipated Success in Meeting Project Objectives
1. Invited lecture at University of Central Florida on In-situ Stormwater Treatment in October 2004
2. Session Chair and Organizer for Stormwater BMP session at Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington D.C. in January 2005
3. Invited lecture at ASCE/University of Guelph Conference in Toronto, Canada in February 2005.
4. Isotherms experimental matrix is nearly complete, and kinetics testing was started in March.
5. Two papers accepted at StormCon in July 2005
6. Co-organizing conference on Highway Stormwater for July 2005 in Florida (see email-attached announcement)
7. 3 PhDs carrying out project research have successfully completed General Exams and are in Candidacy
8. 3 papers submitted to 10th International Conference on Urban Drainage (10-ICUD)
9. On Scientific Organizing Committee of 10-ICUD

Preliminary Data
Two peer-reviewed manuscripts revisions are nearly complete and will be submitted within the next month. A media manuscript is accepted to JEE.

Tasks and activities for next reporting period

Tasks for the next reporting period
2. Pick up storm event sampling, particulate delivery and analyses at sites
5. Continue oxide-coated and amphoteric media kinetics (small amount of isotherm testing remaining; analyses needs to be complete, although recent ICP-MS analysis has helped progress on isotherms)
6. Start SMC prototype testing; parametric analyses (residence times in field are completed and data are being analyzed)
10. Continue particle separation methodology analyses and BMP selection
11. Continue data analyses, organization and interpretation
12. Continue manuscripts, conference proceedings

Work Plan to accomplish tasks
a. Field work at Louisiana and Alabama sites
b. Complete laboratory work that includes bench-scale unit operations and process testing and analytical work, including zeta potential analysis results.
c. Finish kinetics testing.
d. Finish particle separation testing.
e. Continue metal and phosphorus analysis for particulate matter
f. Data analysis
g. Conference proceedings, manuscript completion and follow-up.

Concerns or difficulties
No concerns or difficulties at this point

Expenditures
Expenditures are lower than anticipated due to ICP-MS invoicing that require completion. This has not been addressed as of yet, but ICP-MS is up and running after cones were purchased and replaced.