Sustainable resilient remediation (SRR) is an approach to contaminated site cleanup that integrates sustainability and resilience to protect human health and the environment over the long term. Sustainable resilient remediation seeks to minimize environmental impacts, maximize social and economic benefits, and ensure remedies remain effective in the face of challenges such as extreme weather events, wildfires, and changing environmental conditions.
Developed as an update to the Green and Sustainable Remediation: A Practical Framework (GSR-2, 2011), the Sustainable Resilient Remediation (SRR-1, 2021) guidance provides current tools and best practices for incorporating sustainability and resilience throughout the remediation project lifecycle. It includes a sustainable resilient remediation framework, checklists, case studies, state and federal resource maps, evaluation tools, survey findings, and recommendations to help regulators, consultants, and other stakeholders design and implement more sustainable and resilient cleanup projects.
Topic(s): Remediation Technologies, Resiliency, Sustainability
