The following are remediation planning tips and guidance to improve environmental outcomes at leaking underground storage tank cleanup sites. 

Early Action 

• Evaluate risk early to determine remedial goals and seek risk-based closure.
• Consult ADEQ’s Early Cleanup Technology Deployment Guidance to mitigate plume migration | Learn More >
• Involve the Environmental Protection Agency’s Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the scope of work | Learn More > 
• Product Selection
• Choose products manufactured through processes involving nontoxic chemical alternatives.
• Use products, packing material and disposable equipment with reuse or recycling potential.
• Identify and utilize local sources of materials.
• Use the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) to find electronic products with reduced impacts on the environment | Learn More >
• Use biodegradable cleaning products in cold water applications to conserve energy.

Other Practices

• Incorporate energy-, waste- and water-saving initiatives | Learn More > 
• Consider conducting a pilot test before full-scale implementation of a design remedy.
• Evaluate the feasibility of using mobile laboratory or field analytical methods with little waste.
• Teleconference with vendors/contractors.
• Recycle/re-use materials generated during site remediation.
• Consider limiting the removal of trees and vegetation during construction or transplanting shrubs to other onsite locations.
• Coordinate multiple site activities simultaneously to reduce mobilization and demobilization costs.