Short description and topics:
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).
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Passive and hydraulicContainment
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Wider impacts / sustainability overview
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