Newly Added Tools :
SEFA VERSION 3.0
SITEWISE VERSION 3.2
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
SURF Webinars
SURF hosts free one-hour webinars that tackle emerging topics impacting sustainable remediation and showcase case studies. If you’re a SURF member or SURF sponsor and want to make a webinar presentation or help coordinate SURF’s webinars, contact the SURF Vice President.
SURF Published Documents
GUIDANCE
- Resilient Remediation: Addressing Extreme Weather and Climate Change, Creating Community Value
- Integrating the Social Dimension in Remediation Decision – Making: State of the Practice and Way Forward
- Integrating Groundwater Conservation and Reuse into Remediation Projects
- Integrating Remediation and Reuse to Achieve Whole-System Sustainability Benefits
- Framework for Integrating Sustainability into Remediation Projects
- Supplement to “Framework for Integrating Sustainability into Remediation Projects”
- Guidance for Performing Footprint Analyses and Life – Cycle Assessments for the Remediation Industry
- Metrics for Integrating Sustainability Evaluations into Remediation Projects
- SURF Metrics Toolbox – Remedial Construction
- SURF Metrics Toolbox – Remedial Design
- SURF Metrics Toolbox – Remedial Investigation
- SURF Metrics Toolbox – Remedy Selection
RESEARCH
- Massachusetts Climate Change and Hazardous Waste Site Screening
- Ten Years Later: The Progress and Future of Integrating Sustainable Principles, Practices, and Metrics into Remediation Projects
- Sustainable Remediation White Paper — Integrating Sustainable Principles, Practices, and Metrics Into Remediation Projects
COMMENTARIES
- Commentary: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)
- Commentary: Changes and Opportunities
- Editor’s Perspective: U.S. Sustainable Remediation Forum Pushes Forward With Guidance on the State of the Practice
- Panel: Utilizing Quantitative Evaluation Techniques to Support Sustainable Remediation Projects
- Panel: What Will Affect the Remediation Industry Over the Next One to Two Years?
- Panel: Can Social and Economic Metrics Be Incorporated into Numerical Cleanup Standards?
- Panel: How Can Remediation Industry Increase Acceptance of Sustainable Remediation (vs. Green Remediation)?
- Panel: How Should Regulatory Agencies Incorporate Sustainable Remediation into Cleanup Programs?
- Editor’s Perspective: Sustainable Remediation Gains Momentum as SURF Publishes Groundbreaking White Paper
SURF Case Studies
REQUEST FOR SUSTAINABLE REMEDIATION CASE STUDIES
Download case studies collected under SURF’s Case Study Initiative (CSI) by clicking the links below.
Add your own case study to the repository. If you have been involved in a project that demonstrates sustainable remediation and exemplifies the nexus of environmental, social, and economic aspects, please consider submitting a case study to SURF’s CSI team, a working group of the SURF Technical Initiative Committee, for publication on this site.
Lifecycle Assessments (Footprint)
- 017 – NPL Site-Zone Removal Action Remediation at Pasco Landfill
- 015 – Greener Cleanup Self Declaration at Large Military Facility
- 014 – Transition from Active to Passive Remediation Using the CSM
- 007 – Lawrence Aviation Industries, NY
- 006 – Harrison Landfill, Camden NJ
- 003 – NAS Patuxent River St. Mary’s County MD
Other Publicly Available Resources
- Life-Cycle Case Study Comparison of Permeable Reactive Barrier versus Pump-and-Treat Remediation
- Small Scale In-Situ Bioremediation of Diesel Contaminated Soil – Screening LCA of Environmental Performance
- Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) software tool
- Life Cycle Assessment Tools to Measure Environmental Impacts: Assessing Their Applicability to the Home Building Industry
- Mastering carbon management: Balancing trade-offs to optimize supply chain efficiencies
- Climate Science Special Report
- Climate Change Indicators in the United States
- Sustainability and the US EPA
- Sustainability for the Nation: Resource Connection and Governance Linkages
- Public Health Linkages with Sustainability
- Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities
- Indicators of Climate Change in California
- Reducing Abrupt Climate Change Risk Using the Montreal Protocol and Other Regulatory Actions to Complement Cuts in CO2 Emissions
- IPCC 2007 Synthesis Report
- Stabilization Wedges
- Green and Sustainable Remediation: A Practical Framework
- ASTM Standard Guide for Integrating Sustainable Objectives into Cleanup
- ASTM Standard Guide for Greener Cleanups
- Navy Guidance on GSR (User’s Guide UG-2093-ENV Rev.1 )
- SURF Australia Sustainable Remediation Framework
- SuRF-UK Sustainable Remediation Framework
- Green & Sustainable Remediation Manual
- Methodology for Understanding and Reducing a Project’s Environmental Footprint
- Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making: Tools and Approaches for the US EPA
- Green Remediation BMPs: Site Investigation
- Green Remediation BMPs: Bioremediation
- Green Remediation BMPs: Pump and Treat Technologies
- Green Remediation BMPs: SVE and Air Sparging
- Green Remediation BMPs: Excavation and Surface Restoration
- Green Remediation BMPs: Clean Fuel & Emission Technologies for Site Cleanup
- Green Remediation BMPs: Integrating Renewable Energy into Site Cleanup
- Green Remediation BMPs: Sites with Leaking Underground Storage Tank Systems
- Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon
- Developing a Program for Contaminated Site Management in Low and Middle Income Countries
- Financing Mechanisms for Addressing Remediation of Site Contamination
- The Economics of Groundwater Remediation and Protection
- Environmental Economics – Theory and Policy
- Environmental and Material Flow Cost Accounting
- Strategies for Addressing Cumulative Impacts in Environmental Justice Communities
- Environmental Social Sciences – Methods and Research Design
- The Great Transition: Navigating Social, Economic, Ecological Change in Turbulent Times
- Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators
