STIEVE, ALICE, alice.stieve@srs.gov, and LEWIS, CATHY, cathy.lewis@srs.gov, Savannah River Site,  Aiken, SC, 29801.

The Reactor Team in Environmental Restoration at SRS is utilizing ArcView project folders as a means to gather together electronic information for the various waste site characterization projects into a central location that can be accessed by everyone on the team.  A variety of individuals have particular technical input to the progress of every operable unit at various stages of the process.  It is important to the team and management to see and understand what is going on in the field and what the preliminary results of the current field efforts are producing. ArcView is a very user-friendly tool for this strategy.  Data is put out in a visual and georeferenced format with fast turn around times in the ArcView environment. ArcView, used in conjunction with a server essentially provides a visual database for all team members to access.  The end result is a dynamic presentation to bring to the Regulators that can “on the spot” address additional, perhaps unanticipated questions that are of concern to them about current knowledge of the waste site.
   As a way of demonstrating how the Reactor Team utilizes this concept we will show a few case examples. First, a big picture project that covers the entire scope of the Reactor team groundwater strategy. Secon, a small groundwater modeling project.  Finally, a complicated waste site with several issues at stake including: a groundwater plume, a soil contamination area that impacts risk, a vadose zone remediation system that impacts the source for the groundwater plume.
   Other aspects of this project approach include the data organization and input of base coverages that would be common to all projects at the SRS, coverages that are more specific to certain reactor area, and the very local data impacting the specific project.  The organization of base coverages includes site coordinates as well as UTM projection files.  The entire technical Team has had at least one week of training in the ArcView application.