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A Slice of Guidance Provides Some Insight to Addressing Contaminated Sediments
Author(s) -
Sears Ted
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
remediation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6831
pISSN - 1051-5658
DOI - 10.1002/rem.10038
Subject(s) - hazardous waste , agency (philosophy) , consistency (knowledge bases) , environmental remediation , environmental planning , risk analysis (engineering) , risk management , certainty , superfund , risk assessment , business , environmental resource management , engineering , environmental science , computer science , waste management , contamination , sociology , computer security , ecology , social science , biology , philosophy , finance , epistemology , artificial intelligence
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued guidance to improve cleanup riskmanagement decisions at sites involving contaminated sediments. The guidance is titled Principles forManaging Contaminated Sediment Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites and is important because sediment cleanupdecisions are often very technical and complex. While the guidance is not a step‐by‐step“how to” document, it does provide the framework for risk‐based decision making and nationalconsistency. Although it does not answer the more technical questions associated with remediation, it willlikely provide site managers with greater certainty related to their decisions and help determine what questionsneed to be asked for many complex issues. Additional and forthcoming EPA reports, seminars, and products will beuseful in building upon this framework. This article provides an overview of the risk management principlespresented in the guidance. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.