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Data Gap Analysis and Damage Case Studies: Risk Analyses from Construction and Demolition Debris Landfills and Recycling Facilities
Citation:
Tolaymat, T. Data Gap Analysis and Damage Case Studies: Risk Analyses from Construction and Demolition Debris Landfills and Recycling Facilities. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-13/303, 2012.
Impact/Purpose:
The specific objectives of the evaluation were to (1) evaluate current state regulations and broad statistics pertaining to C&D debris management in the US; (2) gather information from states regarding areas of concern, with respect to C&D debris management facilities and their impact on human health and the environment; (3) identify and analyze data gaps between information collected as part of the conditionally exempt small quantity generator (CESQG) rulemaking, and current, readily available information regarding C&D debris management, including environmental monitoring data and compliance and enforcement information for C&D debris disposal and recycling facilities; and (4) conduct detailed damage case assessments at three sites identified as causing damage in the last 10 years with and an expanded set of damage pathways in the analysis.
Description:
The report presents an evaluation of construction and demolition (C&D) debris management in the US to update and expand upon the previous set of data to include information on more recent cases of damage and potential impacts and expand the breadth of damages beyond groundwater and surface water impacts. The specific objectives of the evaluation were to: (1) evaluate current state regulatons and broad statistics pertaining to C&D debris management in the US; (2) gather information from states regarding areas of concern, if any, with respect to C&D debris management facilities and their impact on human health and the environment; (3) identify and analyze data gaps between information collected as part of the conditionally exempt small quantity generator (CESQG) rulemaking and current, readily available information regarding C&D debris management, including (but not limited to) environmental monitoring data and compliance and enforcement information for C&D debris disposal and recycling facilities; and (4) conduct detailed damage case assessments at three sites identified as causing damage in the last 10 years with an expanded set of damage pathways in the analysis (e.g., groundwater, air emissions and fires).