Ecological Resource Value, Remediation Options, and Impacts: Functional Remediation at Hanford Site - 17226
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OSTI ID:22794610
- Rutgers University (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (United States)
- Vanderbilt University (United States)
- Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation - CRESP (United States)
Governmental agencies, Tribes, regulators, resource trustees and other stakeholders are interested in understanding the risk to the environment from remediation and restoration, particularly at large DOE sites with complex remediation tasks lasting decades. While each remediation project has the usual environmental impact assessment that include risk to eco-receptors, a piece-meal approach to examining the effect of remediation does not provide an overview of remaining tasks that would aid in sequencing these tasks. The Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) developed a risk methodology for Hanford Site that included ecological resources between 2014 and 2015. The ecological methodology included a comparison of the value of on-site resources with the eco-region, with state and federal threatened and endangered species, and with rare and unique habitats. Potential remediation options for particular evaluation units were used in conjunction with the resource level values to determine the risk of remediation of ecological resources. The methodology developed for Hanford Site also considered functional remediation (e.g. number of trucks, personnel, heavy equipment), initiating events (e.g. earthquakes, volcanos) and future land use. These factors were combined to rate the risk to ecological resources on a scale of not-discernible to very high. In this paper seven evaluation units (waste sites requiring remediation) were evaluated to explore the efficacy of the methodology to provide useful information on the comparative risk for decommissioning and waste management sites. The evaluation of resource levels was based on prior site information, state and federal data bases, and field investigations. The final determination of a risk rating for each evaluation unit depended upon both quantitative data, field experience, and professional judgement. It provides a method that can be applied to many remediation sites within a large DOE facility such as Hanford, as well as across the DOE complex. This will provide information for sound decision-making with stakeholder participation, and will allow DOE to reassure stakeholders that they are protecting human and ecological health on the Hanford Site. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22794610
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--19-WM-17226
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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