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: DavidK. 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

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 1105

Richmond, VA 23218-1105
Phone: (804) 698-4382      

Fax: (804) 698-4264 
Email: rsobin@deq.virginia.gov