Case Studies in Green Remediation – This Year’s Models and Tools,” February 10, 2011 from 1 to 3:15 pm

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The PAERAB’s website has been modified  over the past year. As one might expect  the website’s repository of documents related, directly or indirectly, to the cleanup of Picatinny Arsenal has been significantly increased. There have also been several visual changes. For example, a new introductory webpage had been added to the website in the first quarter of 2010 to facilitate user access to notices, to announcements of board meetings and public  hearings, to training schedules and to TAPP newsletters. The overall purpose of this particular change was to enable site users to quickly and easily become aware of current developments without having to delve too deeply into the website. During the latter portion of 2010 the new introductory webpage was modified to include a section dedicated exclusively to recently issued documents, data and correspondence. This change is intended to enable site users who are already familiar with older archived documents to expeditiously examine only the most recent correspondence, reports and/or data. Categorized by topic, this section displays specific site information on the right side of the page and more general information relating to the arsenal as a whole on the left side. Eventually, these documents will be archived and they will no longer be accessible from this section.

 

Archived older documents will for the time being continue to remain accessible from the “LINKS” webpage of the main section. Work plans, reports, maps,

 

 

data tables, site plans, technical diagrams and photos are included in the archive. 

 

The new introductory webpage also provides some cursory information about such topics as board membership and purpose. Hyperlinks are provided in suitable locations for users seeking more detailed information. These hyperlinks will typically transfer the user to appropriate segments of the main section of the website where more complete information, including older archived documents, is provided.

 

 

The website provides convenient access to public information for all board members and interested citizens. Most documents conform to the Adobe PDF format and are thus easily examined with Adobe Reader which is currently free and available to all. HTML versions of TAPP Newsletters, whose contents include technical analyses of cleanup documents, are maintained on the website for easy and fast viewing. PDF versions of these newsletters are available. To be publicly accessible information must conform to official security restrictions. 

 

Mr. Michael Glaab, who had several years ago established both this website and the PAERAB’s internet domain, serves as its webmaster and is responsible for both its maintenance and improvement. Included among his responsibilities are internet registration, internet service provider delegation, e-mail service, domain architecture design, backup, memory allocation, server administration,

 

 

database administration and the timely population of the website with relevant documents. Mr. Glaab offers the following comments :

 

“This website is an accessible electronic forum for disseminating vast amounts of information to board members and also to the public. Because of the website’s existence multiple copies of the many documents constantly being generated need not be printed on paper and distributed to each and every board member. This affords the army and the regulatory agencies reductions in their printing and shipping expenditures. Of course, crucial to the usefulness of this website is the willingness of the principal environmental partners to duly inform the board in a timely manner about current developments in the arsenal’s cleanup effort. This is typically done either by including us in e-mail address lists when sending e-mails, with or without attachments, or by sending us CDs containing voluminous amounts of data. Accordingly, the PAERAB is most appreciative of the truly commendable efforts of Mr. Ted Gabel (US Army), Mr. Jim Kealy (NJDEP), Mr. Joe Marchesani (NJDEP), Mr. Bill Roach (USEPA) and Mr. Greg Zalaskus (NJDEP); among others; for assuring that the public is kept duly informed in accordance with statutory requirements”.

  PAERAB’s WEBSITE       ( www.paerab.us )