Title: |
Green Remediation Best Management Practices: Pump and Treat Technologies
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Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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Country: |
USA
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Year: |
2009 |
Availability: |
EPA 542-F-09-005
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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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Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Passive and hydraulicContainment Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Sustainable / green remediation
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Short description: |
The U.S. EPA Principles for Greener Cleanups outline the Agency's policy for evaluating and minimizing the environmental 'footprint' of activities undertaken when cleaning up a contaminated site. Use of the best management practices (BMPs) recommended in EPA's series of green remediation fact sheets can help project managers and other stakeholders apply the Principles on a routine basis, while maintaining the cleanup objectives, ensuring protectiveness of a remedy, and improving its environmental outcome. Pump and treat (P&T) technology typically is selected in a cleanup remedy to hydraulically contain contamination and/or restore an aquifer to beneficial use. Opportunities to reduce the energy and environmental footprint of a P&T remedy, which are available during site characterization and the remedy selection, design, construction, and operation phases, rely on effective planning and continual re-evaluation of P&T operations. Options for reducing the footprint vary based on the site conditions and cleanup objectives as well as the configuration and components of a planned or existing P&T system (December 2009, 4 pages).
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 02/01/2010
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