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Assessment of Benefits and Costs of remedial actions (ABC Tool)
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| Resource Type: |
software --> decision support tools
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| Country: |
EU Projects
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| Year: |
2006 |
| Availability: |
The ABC Tool can be downloaded from the WELCOME Web Site
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| Producers or distributor |
PURE Project Consortium
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| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Cost benefit analysis-->Tools
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Ex situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Excavation
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->In situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->MNA
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Passive and hydraulicContainment
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Permeable reactive barriers
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Recycling/reuse
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Remediation options overview
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Assessment tools
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Economic
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Environmental
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| Short description: |
In Europe, industrial sites are often operational for a long time and unravelling their history is not always easy. Moreover, combinations of multiple contaminants in a complex sub-surface exist quite regularly. To obtain more insight into options for remediation techniques and their cost-effectiveness, a decision-support tool has been developed, called: ABC or assessment of benefits and costs. It is seen as a technical tool to identify and examine the feasibility of different remediation techniques, in particular to highlight possibilities for alterative approaches to conventional techniques. It is seen as a communication tool improve the discussion between stakeholders about remediation options and their comparative benefits. It is seen as a learning tool and an economic tool to evaluate cost-effectiveness, duration and use of space.
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| Long description: |
The ABC tool consists of 3 modules:
Assessment: the feasibility of remediation techniques combined with different subsurface circumstances and with different contaminants can be determined for a specific site
Benefits: environmental load and merit of the techniques are determined
Costs: average costs per country are gathered per technique
Benefits are evaluated using Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) on a cradle to the grave basis. Also environmental merit (leaned medium times a clean-up factor) duration and deployment of space are included.
Cost data and output encompass a cost estimation for each technique by country. Cost data are relatively coarse because they are specific to countries and also highly site-specific.
Output of the ABC tool is a set of tables and graphics with information about:
Energy
Resource requirements
Emissions
(hazardous and nonhazardous) waste
Results on 'environmental score', time duration, deployment of space, costs and additional expert remarks are also displayed in the output.
The decision-maker at the plant operational level can start with the decision analysis activity once an overview of information relevant to the nature of the decisions is available. A fast simple assessment must be made in the first phase of the project, resulting in a risk, benefit and cost analysis. The remediation will be optimised in terms of technical, financial and timing criteria and to meet both internal and external constraints.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 28/09/2006
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