| Title: |
Green Remediation: Best Management Practices for Excavation and Surface Restoration
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| Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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| Country: |
USA
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| Year: |
2008 |
| Availability: |
EPA 542-F-08-012
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| Author 1/Producer: |
US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Excavation
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->In situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Passive and hydraulicContainment
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| Short description: |
This quick-reference fact sheet provides examples of planning and field strategies for increasing sustainability of contaminated soil or sediment excavation and subsequent land restoration under any regulatory framework. The document focuses on opportunities to reduce the negative impacts of excavation, such as high rates of fuel consumption, transport of air-borne contaminants, uncontrolled stormwater runoff, soil erosion, and ecosystem disturbance. Green remediation encourages decision-makers to weigh the environmental and economic tradeoffs of implementing remedies such as excavation and to closely coordinate remedy implementation with long-term site use.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 13/01/2009
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