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

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
Project Start Date:1 September 2002

Accomplishments
Scheduled Tasks
2. Storm event sampling, particulate delivery and analyses at sites
5. Oxide-coated and amphoteric media analyses (MOPM)
6. SMC prototype testing and parametric analyses
8. Flocculation studies
9. Field fractionation studies
10. Particle separation methodology analyses and BMP selection
11. Data analyses, organization and interpretation
12. Manuscripts, conference proceedings, Weeks Bay/stakeholder presentations

Progress on Tasks
2. 100% complete as of 21 August 2005 (last storm before Katrina)
5. 100% complete (Kinetics analyses in process, isotherms largely complete)
6. 100% complete, results currently under analysis
8. 100% complete
11. 100% complete
12. 90% complete, 1 manuscript accepted, 4 manuscripts in process (2 new manuscripts), no stakeholder presentations

Difficulties Encountered
1. Moved to University of Florida in August of 2005
2. Three break-ins at Baton Rouge site in August and September; damage repaired; police reports made.
3. Cannot get to Alabama site; I assume it does not exist after Hurricane Katrina.
4. Repaired Baton Rouge site storm damage; plumbing torn out by wind or flows.
5. Focused on finishing data collection at Baton Rouge site and in laboratory

Anticipated Success in Meeting Project Objectives
1. Two talks at International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD-10) in Copenhagen
2. Two talks at StormCon on research in Florida in July 2005

Preliminary Data
PhD on project scheduled to defend dissertation by end of Fall Semester.

Tasks and activities for final reporting period
a. Final report to be submitted
b. Stakeholders presentations will be completed as access becomes available and the Mobile Bay area recovers over the next several months.

Expenditures
Completed, there is no money left.