Green Remediation Practices | Corrective Action
Following are remediation planning tips and guidance to improve environmental outcomes at leaking underground storage tank cleanup sites.
Early Action
- Evaluate risk early in the process to determine remedial goals and seek risk-based closure.
- Consult ADEQ’s Early Cleanup Technology Deployment Guidance to mitigate plume migration | Learn More >
- Involve the Environmental Protection Agency’s Best Management Practices (BMPs) in scope of work | Learn More >
Product Selection
- Choose products manufactured through processes involving nontoxic chemical alternatives.
- Use products, packing material and disposable equipment with reuse or recycling potential.
- Identify and utilize local sources of materials.
- Use the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) to find electronic products with reduced impacts on the environment | Learn More >
- Use biodegradable cleaning products in cold water applications to conserve energy.
Other Practices
- Incorporate energy-, waste- and water-saving initiatives | Learn More >
- Consider conducting a pilot test before full-scale implementation of a design remedy.
- Evaluate feasibility of using mobile laboratory or field analytical methods with little waste.
- Teleconference with vendors/contractors.
- Recycle/re-use materials generated during site remediation.
- Consider limiting the removal of trees and vegetation during construction or transplanting shrubs to other onsite locations.
- Coordinate multiple site activities at the same time to reduce mobilization and de-mobilization costs.