They have been sampling mold levels in storm-damaged houses before, during, and after remediation to determine the effectiveness of cleanup procedures.
"This new information may allow for modeling of airborne mercury concentrations following breakage, thus providing the capability to more fully assess the effectiveness of cleanup," says Roxanne Smith, a press officer for the EPA.
The traditional dispersant method has shown limited effectiveness in oil cleanup.
"Government and industry will habitually understate the volume of the spill and the impact, and they will overstate the effectiveness of the cleanup and their response," he said.
And when I pull out my blue, yellow, or pink cloth wipes, the effectiveness of my cleanup job for the spilled juice, the dropped pizza, or the drizzled ice cream is much more effective and satisfying.
Interview questions were adapted to be relevant for each participant, but typically followed: impacts experienced; cleanup requirements; immediate mitigation strategies and their effectiveness; the effectiveness of emergency management plans and any subsequent adaptations since the eruption; interdependency with other systems, organisations or sectors; and the recovery process.
In this paper, the effectiveness of job-list cleanup method is shown.
The tracer tests can be used to evaluate the spatial patterns in these parameters, both before and after implementing some in situ technique for site cleanup, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of remediation achieved and the possible impacts of the cleanup technology on hydrodynamic and bio-geochemical processes.
Emerging technologies, such as nano-technology, could be applied in this cleanup effort to reduce costs and improve the overall effectiveness of environmental remediation methods.
EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck, who is overseeing the project, declared it a success and allowed GE to dismantle its cleanup operation even before the agency commenced a mandated review of its effectiveness.
