Innovation in brownfields site assessment

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Abstract

Urban planners and economic developers, especially at local levels, are faced with the cost of determining contamination levels at their Brownfields sites. Often they find themselves unable to respond to information requests from prospective purchasers and property developers, on whether sites within their jurisdiction are contaminated, and if so, the potential cleanup liabilities. The general practice has been to engage environment consultants or in-house technical staff to conduct site assessments, following Superfund investigation models required by federal and state governments. These investigations generally utilize conventional sampling and analytical methods which are costly and time consuming. New innovative, field assessment technologies are emerging and reaching the market place which lend themselves well to gathering the data in a timely way to answer questions that are asked by those interested in Brownfields sites. This paper will identify those questions, provide a summary of some of the advancing technologies, discuss the ways that the data collection can be expanded and accelerated and define some of the barriers that must be overcome for regulatory acceptance of those technologies.

Identifier

0031644874 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Geotechnical Special Publication

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784403891.002

ISSN

08950563

First Page

16

Last Page

X1

Issue

82

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