SD-5 Evaluation Criteria Matrix

EVALUATION CRITERIA	Proposed Alternatives
		A	B	C	D	E	Y	Z
THRESHOLD CRITERIA
I. Overall Protection of Human Health and the Environment
A. Human Health
1. Exposure pathways eliminated, reduced or controlled?
B. Environment
1. Impacts on threatened/endangered species/habitats acceptable?
2. Impacts within hydrological and ecological threshold(s)?
II. Compliance with ARARs

PRIMARY BALANCING CRITERIA
III. Effectiveness and Permanence of Response Alternatives
A. Effectiveness
1. Estimated % capture of plume by volume
2. Estimated % contaminant removal by mass
a. Ethylene Dibromide (EDB)
b. Volatile Organic Compounds
c. Semi-volatiles		na	na	na	na	Na	na	na
d. Inorganics		na	na	na	na	Na	na	na
3. Impacts on other plume(s)
B. Impacts associated with uncaptured portion of the plume
1. Human health risk
a. Carcinogenic
b. Non-carcinogenic
2. Ecological risk
3. Socio-economic
4. Water supply
C. Characteristics of uncaptured portion of plume
1. Volume
2. Mass
3. Persistence (duration)
4. Surface water impacts

D. Institutional controls for plume area
1. Property use restrictions required							Na
2. Connections to public water supplies							Na
3. Adequacy of Institutional Controls
a. Human health
b. Ecological
4. Other	na	na	na	Na	na	na	na
IV. Effectiveness of Treatment Systems
A. Treatment system efficiency to background levels?
1. Ethylene Dibromide						na	na
2. Volatile Organic Compounds						na	na
3. Semi-volatiles	na	na	na	na	na	na	na
4. Inorganics	na	na	na	na	na	na	na
B. Final disposition of treatment system residuals						na	na
C. Handling/treating/disposing of residuals: risks to workers						na	na
D. Treatment as principal element of response alternative?
V. Implementability
A. Time factors:
1. Duration to partial system start-up		na		na		na	na
2. Duration to full system start-up						na	na
3. Estimated duration of system operation							na
B. Reliability of technology						na	na
C. Coordination requirements with regulators/other agencies
D. Property access considerations							na
E. Risks associated with construction
1. Human health							na
2. Ecological							na
F. Impacts associated with construction
1. Socio-economic							na
2. Environmental							na

G. Risks associated with operations
1. Human health							na
2. Ecological						na	na
H. Impacts associated with operations
1. Socio-economic							na
2. Environmental							na
VI Cost, in millions
A. Total capital cost	16.4	12.0	7.7	16.0	9.1	1.4	0
B. Operating and maintenance cost -- annual	1.5	1.1	0.8	1.4	0.8	0.2	0.1
C. Life-cycle cost	44.4	34.6	22.7	43.4	25.5	5.9	1.6

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA
VII. Acceptance of response alternative
A. Public at large
B. Neighborhood					np
C. Process Action Teams
D. Senior Management Board Selectmen Representatives
E. Department of Public Health/ATSDR	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
F. Natural Resource Trustees	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
G Environmental Protection Agency
H. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
I. Department of Defense