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Dec 22, 2015
Development of Risk-Based Remediation Strategies
Publication: Risk-Based Corrective Action and Brownfields Restorations
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Risk assessment is used and accepted by U.S. regulatory agencies as an objective means of identifying sites that may need remediation, and as a tool helping to determine the most appropriate remedial action. Risk-based strategies can support identification of remedies that are both protective of health and the environment and cost-effective. For example, risk assessment can be used to estimate the risk posed by a site in the absence of remedial action; focus site characterization activities; establish remedial action objectives; and compare alternative remedies for achieving those objectives. This paper provides a brief overview of the basic principles of risk assessment, identifies assumptions made during the baseline risk assessment that can have a significant effect on remediation decisions and discusses the use of risk assessment in the remedy selection process. Case histories are also presented to illustrate key risk assessment issues.
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© 1998 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Dec 22, 2015
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Case studies
- Disaster risk management
- Engineering fundamentals
- Financial management
- Geotechnical engineering
- Geotechnical investigation
- Health hazards
- Methodology (by type)
- Mitigation and remediation
- Practice and Profession
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Research methods (by type)
- Risk management
- Site investigation
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Stephen T. Washburn
ENVIRON Corporation, 214 Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ
Kristen G. Edelmann
ENVIRON Corporation, 214 Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ
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