LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY | Secretary Chuck Carr Brown, PhD.
A DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
LDEQ Hosted Events
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00pm
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh7U1Am_QDU&list=PLYftmUkuzbWBjX6BcSbGuPInBDtIADJo3&index=1
Looking for an effective way to communicate your Brownfields Program to community groups, elected officials, and other Brownfields stakeholders? Join our dynamic panel discussion with three successful Brownfields Programs that have effectively employed StoryMaps to engage their community and promote their programs. Learn how this tool can help build momentum for your Brownfields Program and market your resources to developers and community organizations to facilitate the reuse of blighted properties.
Featured Panelists:
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYftmUkuzbWDvLqDDtMUVSJQmbQfnCrAe
Join Keith Horn, Senior Environmental Scientist with LDEQ's Remediation Division, as he outlines soil sampling best practices for RECAP investigations including common soil sampling issues and RECAP requirements that apply to soil sampling events. Learn how to ensure your sampling events conform to DEQ’s regulations and properly characterize your site to facilitate future development.
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am *Break for Lunch* 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Via Zoom - REGISTER HERE
Registration: Webinars are FREE but registration is required to receive the webinar link.
Join Dr. June Sutherlin, Toxicologist, for this informative presentation on LDEQ's Risk Evaluation/Corrective Action Program (RECAP) where she'll lay the groundwork for RECAP-compliant investigations and reports with special attention to data analysis. Don't miss this opportunity to come up to speed on RECAP or sharpen your existing RECAP skills with this extended training!
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Via Zoom - REGISTER HERE
Registration: Webinars are FREE but registration is required to receive the webinar link.
LDEQ Environmental Senior Scientist Keith Horn will review how to effectively develop a sampling plan for a RECAP investigation. Join this interactive webinar to ensure your sampling event meets LDEQ requirements to reduce the cost and time it takes to resample a site.
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Via Zoom - REGISTER HERE
Registration: Webinars are FREE but registration is required to receive the webinar link.
LDEQ's Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP) is a useful tool to facilitate the cleanup of sites throughout Louisiana. Join Jennifer Schatzle, LDEQ's Brownfields and VRP Technical Liaison, for an overview of the VRP including:
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Via Zoom - REGISTER HERE
Registration: Webinars are FREE but registration is required to receive the webinar link.
Looking for ways to facilitate the review and approval of your RECAP submittals? Attend this webinar where Dr. June Sutherlin, Toxicologist, will review some of the common mistakes, misconceptions, and compliance issues with RECAP investigations and report submittals. Ensure your work plans and reports check all of LDEQ's boxes!
Visit LDEQ's YouTube page for additional recordings!
Brownfields Partner Events
National Brownfields Conference
Dates: December 8-11, 2021 **New Dates**
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Join Brownfields stakeholders from across the country to learn tips and tricks for redeveloping Brownfields in your community and share your experience with other Brownfields enthusiasts!
Brownfields Redevelopment Process: Module 4 Community Planning & Brownfields
Host: KSU TAB
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 1:30 PM CT
https://www.ksutab.org/education/webinars/details?id=453
This 90-minute interactive session designed for participants involved in brownfields community planning will present different types of plans and planning tools related to brownfields redevelopment. The session will begin in a central meeting “room” which will briefly highlight the course material, then break out into virtual small groups to discuss how to utilize existing plans, when to initiate community engagement, and how to identify other surveys and studies needed for completing a successful redevelopment project. Finally, each small group will share their discussion with the larger group followed by time for Q&A.
Event: McDonogh 19/ Future TEP Center Redevelopment in New Orleans Lower 9th Ward
Host: ULI Louisiana
Recording: https://youtu.be/hTJjGdIRXqU
Learn how the Leona Tate Foundation is rejuvenating a former elementary school in the Lower 9th Ward into the Tate, Etienne, and Provost (TEP) Interpretive Center. The renovated mixed-use facility will feature education and exhibition space dedicated to the history of New Orleans Public School Desegregation, Civil Rights, and restorative justice, as well as 25 deeply affordable residential units for seniors 55 and older.
Have a Brownfields-related event in Louisiana you would like included in our newsletter? Email event information to Brownfields@la.gov.