Using risk-based remedy selection to minimize remedial response costs -- A case history
- Blasland, Bouck and Lee, Inc., Cranbury, NJ (United States)
The authors used a risk-based remedy selection at a former coal tar emulsion production facility in a heavily industrialized area of northern New Jersey. Historical site activities resulted in extensive contamination of shallow site soils from high molecular weight Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), including potentially carcinogenic PAHs (cPAHs). Then-current risk-based proposed soil cleanup goals developed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) were not representative of potential exposures under current or future exposure scenarios. Alternate soil cleanup goals were calculated, incorporating relevant input variables that accurately reflected site conditions and potential receptors/exposure scenarios; these cleanup goals demonstrated the site did not pose the degree of risk assumed by the NJDEP. However, they were not accepted by NJDEP as performance standards for remedial activities for ``policy`` reasons.
- OSTI ID:
- 205336
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951139--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Deriving a practical and cost-effective soil remedial goal for carcinogenic PAHs
Establishing generic remediation goals for the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Critical issues