ABSTRACT
366Preparing brownfields sites for productive reuse requires integration of many elements: financial issues, community involvement, liability considerations, environmental assessment, and cleanup and regulatory requirements. The challenge to any brownfields program is to cleanup sites in accordance with redevelopment goals. Such goals may include cost-effectiveness, timeliness, avoidance of adverse effects to site structures and neighboring communities, and redevelopment of land in a way that benefits communities and local economies. The Triad approach focuses on management of decision uncertainty by incorporating systematic project planning, dynamic work planning strategies, and use of real-time measurement technologies, including innovative technologies, to accelerate and improve the cleanup process.
Specifically, the objective of this chapter is to provide decision makers with: An understanding of common industrial processes at metal finishing facilities and the relationship between such processes and potential releases of contaminants to the environment; information on the types of contaminants likely to be present at a metal finishing site; a discussion of site assessment and cleanup technologies that can be used to assess and cleanup the types of contaminants likely to be present at metal finishing sites; a conceptual framework for identifying potential contaminants at the site, pathways by which contaminants may migrate offsite, and environmental and human health367 concerns; information on developing an appropriate cleanup plan for metal finishing sites where contamination levels must be reduced to allow a site’s reuse; a discussion of pertinent issues and factors that should be considered when developing a site assessment and cleanup plan and selecting appropriate technologies for brownfields, given time and budget constraints.
