Remediation risk management (RRM) is a way to identify and manage challenges that can make environmental cleanup difficult. It helps project managers understand potential risks, consider how likely they are to occur and how they could affect a cleanup project, and develop ways to address them. Remediation risk management supports the primary goal of protecting human health and the environment while also helping make cleanup efforts more efficient, timely, and cost-effective.
Using Remediation Risk Management to Address Groundwater Cleanup Challenges at Complex Sites (RRM-2, 2012) focuses on the technical challenges of cleaning up groundwater at highly complex sites. It explains how remediation risk management can help evaluate and manage these challenges and describes long-term approaches that help protect human health and the environment when cleanup goals prove difficult to achieve. The guidance includes examples such as technical impracticability waivers, greater risk waivers, groundwater management zones, and phased approaches. It also includes case studies to the use of these approaches at other complex sites.
Topic(s): Complex Sites, Groundwater, Groundwater Monitoring, Risk Assessment, Risk Communication, Risk Management, Water Quality
