Bage Gontran F, Samson Réjean, Sinclair-Desgagné Bernard
NSERC Industrial Chair in Site Remediation and Management, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, P.O. Box 6079, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3A7.
Environ Manage. 2003 Jan;31(1):69-78. doi: 10.1007/s00267-002-2672-0.
Different tools, such as a screening matrix or decision framework, are available to select a remediation technology to treat a contaminated site. However, unless these methods can point out the appropriate technology in regards to the decision-maker's knowledge about the contaminated site, they are less useful to evaluate both the technical effectiveness and the cost of the remediation, and to assess different remediation strategies from either future data acquisition or the use of an irreversible remediation technology. A model developed to allow such evaluations has been used to simulate the remediation of a virtual contaminated site. From this, four remediation recommendations have been made. These recommendations are guidelines for the build up of a remediation strategy that would both maximize the effectiveness of the decontamination and minimize its total cost.
