SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE increasingly points to the importance of considering the risks of cleaning up hazardous waste sites in making remedial decisions, and little-used regulatory provisions allow for such consideration.
Though a major reason to cleanse the land is to address present or future health impacts, the act of cleaning up itself poses certain risks, especially to the workers on the site, but also to site neighbors, to truck drivers hauling the waste for disposal and to motorists sharing the highways with these trucks. If the cleanup risks are too high, then perhaps a different remedy should be chosen. Traditionally these questions were seldom asked, and the risks caused by the remediation were not compared to those sought to be remediated. That is now changing a bit, especially in view of recent findings that the health risks addressed in many (though not all) Superfund cleanups are themselves rather small.[1]�
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