The Speakers’ Bureau is an educational resource to consider when discussing environmental subjects, such as ecology, groundwater contamination, and geology. AFCEE can provide a hands-on presentation including a discussion of geology and hydrology, a discussion of public health risk, and an overview of the history and current status of the IRP environmental cleanup program.

AFCEE can work with you to develop an interactive presentation tailored to the needs and interests of your group. The Speakers’ Bureau has addressed the Cape Cod Community College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, local high schools, DEP, EPA, United States Geological Survey (USGS), community, civic, professional, and realtor groups.

Typically, the presenters use a tabletop groundwater model to demonstrate how AFCEE is cleaning up contaminated groundwater at the MMR. Several layers of soil are visible in the clear Plexiglas model. Water colored with red dye is inserted into the soil to simulate groundwater contamination. The audience can watch the colored water form an underground plume flowing through the groundwater model. They'll see the moving plume intercepted by an extraction well and then pumped to a small activated carbon filter next to the model. This filter extracts the colored dye from the water. Finally, the audience sees clear, clean filtered water being pumped back into the groundwater. This is a small-scale version of the program’s 12 million-gallon-per-day cleanup systems.