CLEANUP
Benefits of the Preferred Remedy
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Superfund Criteria | Preferred Remedy |
Protect human health and environment | Yes |
Meet all applicable laws and regulations | No alternative will achieve drinking water standards in a reasonable timeframe |
Long-term effectiveness and permanence | Yes. Contamination posing the greatest risk will be treated in place and the entire upland will be capped to prevent potential releases to the nearshore habitat to protect fish and wildlife and enhanced nearshore habitat conditions. |
Reduction of toxicity, mobility, or volume | Yes |
Short-term effectiveness | Yes. This will cause less short-term water quality impacts, will require less construction traffic, will not create additional noise or odors from disturbing the soil and will become effective more quickly than other remedies that will take longer to construct. |
Implementability | Yes. This will require less design and construction |
Cost | Yes. While still costly, this is the most cost-effective and will allow the site to be redeveloped. |