Virginia Mercury Symposium
The Virginia Mercury Symposium was held on Nov. 28 and 29 in Newport News.
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the State Air Pollution Control Board hosted the symposium to raise awareness of mercury emissions, prevention and control techniques, transport and deposition, and health effects and to assist in the Commonwealth’s assessment of the need for additional controls.
The presentations given at the symposium are available as links from individual agenda items below. Please note that some of the documents are large files.
Virginia Mercury Symposium
Omni Newport News Hotel (Newport News, VA)
November 28-29, 2007
Nov. 28, 2007
Opening Remarks: L. Preston Bryant, Jr. – Secretary of Natural Resources
Introduction & Overview: David K. Paylor – Director, Virginia DEQ
Mercury Emissions, Transport and Transformation I and II
- DEQ Mercury Study—Findings to Date (PDF, 33 MB), Sharon Douglas and Jay Haney, ICF International Inc.
- State Advisory Board on Air Pollution Non-EGU Mercury Source Study (PDF, 29 MB), Dan Holmes, Piedmont Environmental Council on behalf of the State Advisory Board on Air Pollution
- Integrative Monitoring and Modeling Programs for Mercury (PDF, 77 MB), Robert Mason, University of Connecticut
- Defining source-receptor relationships for mercury: measurement and modeling approaches (PDF, 37 MB), Gerald Keeler, University of Michigan
- Mercury Deposition in the Mid-Atlantic Region: Data, Models, and Limitations (PDF, 8 MB), Leonard Levin, Electric Power Research Institute
Lunch Keynote Speaker: Economic and Health Issues (PDF, 3 MB), Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future, introduced by Jeff Corbin, Assistant Secretary of Natural Resources
Health, Ecology, and Risk Assessment
- Developing Integrated Monitoring and Modeling Programs for Mercury in the Chesapeake Bay Region (PDF, 204 MB), Cynthia Gilmour, Smithsonian Institution
- CAMR human health assessment study (PDF, 50 MB), Gail Charnley, Health Risk Strategies, Inc.
- DEQ’s Virginia specific human risk assessment study (PDF, 15 MB), Rachel Bullene and Peter deFur, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Wildlife impacts (PDF, 30 MB), Michael Newman, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
- Human health and toxicity (PDF, 30 MB), Erica Holloman and Michael Newman, VIMS
Mercury Prevention and Abatement I
- Cost-Benefit assessment - An update of DEQ study (PDF, 948 KB), Vijay Satyal, DEQ
- Pre-combustion methods - Coal cleaning (PDF, 14 MB), Gerald Luttrel, Virginia Tech
- Post-combustion air pollution controls (PDF, 344 KB), George Offen, EPRI
- Availability of Mercury Control and Measurement Technologies (PDF, 11 MB), David Foerter, Institute of Clean Air Companies
Nov. 29, 2007
Mercury Prevention and Abatement II
- Electric Utility perspective on mercury controls (PDF, 8 MB), Michael Rossler, Edison Electric Institute
- Environmental NGO perspective: Airborne Mercury Impacts to Virginia Waters (PDF, 42 MB), Jon Mueller, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- States’ Programs to Control Mercury from Coal-Fired Power Plants (PDF, 2 MB), S. William Becker, National Association of Clean Air Agencies
Summary discussion and policy issues — facilitated panel discussion
Moderator: James Sydnor, DEQ Air Division Director
David Foerter, Institute of Clean Air Companies
Gerald Keeler, University of Michigan
Jon Mueller, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Michael Newman, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Michael Rossler, Edison Electric Institute
Contact
Rodney Sobin
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
P.O. Box 1105Richmond, VA 23218-1105
Phone: (804) 698-4382Fax: (804) 698-4264
Email: rsobin@deq.virginia.gov