Cost Estimation and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Real-world solutions to environmental problems are sensitive to the estimated cost to implement the remedy. The DSTs featured on this page are specialized tools that may be used to provide critical support in estimating the cost of environmental sampling or remediation projects, or for choosing among alternative actions based on their costs. Rather than supplanting more general and comprehensive software programs that provide construction cost estimates, they are used to focus on cost components that are driven by environmental, geochemical, or geospatial considerations and information.

AMDTreat	Cost Estimating	■	I	NA     NA     NA     NA     Yes	√      NA      NA    NA     NA      NA	NA     NA     NA       √         √	•Engineer
Software Home Page	Calculators(Water Quality)	■					•Geochemist
FIELDS	Visualization	■	F	xls     dbf     dxf      jpg    Yes	√        √       √        √         √         √	√       √        NA      √        √	•GIS Technician
Software Home Page	Initial Sampling	□		txt      shp      tif			• Statistician
	Secondary Sampling	■		wmf			•Staff familiar with
	Geospatial Interpolation	■		eps			interpolation techniques
	Cost-Benefit Analysis	□
	Human Health Risk Assessment	□
	Ecological Risk Assessment	□
SADA	Visualization	■	F	csv     csv      dxf     jpg     Yes	√        √       √        √         √         √	√       √        NA      √        √	•Risk Assessor
Software Home Page	Initial Sampling	□		shp			•Statistician
	Secondary Sampling	■					•Staff Familiar with
	Geospatial Interpolation	■					interpolation techniques
	Statistical Analysis	□
	Human Health Risk Assessment	□
	Ecological Risk Assessment	□
	Cost-Benefit Analysis	□
VSP	Visualization	■	I/F	txt        txt     dxf      dxf     Yes	√        √       √        √         √         √	√        √         √        √         √	•Statistician
Software Home Page	Initial Sampling	■		xls                 shp     shp
	Secondary Sampling	■		csv                          emf
	Statistical Analysis	■		rtf
	Cost-Benefit Analysis	□

Notes:

File input and output formats are represented in the matrix by the file extension.ASCII files, for example are indicated by the extension "txt."

EPCRA = Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act

1 ERPIMS data can be imported through an Access file or a series of text files (.tes, .res, .sam, .ldi).

2 GeoSEM uses several GIS vector and raster file formats: DOD vector product format (VPF) , ESRI product files, CAD drawings (dxf), ASCI II grids, and georeferenced image formats such as geoTIFs, bitmaps, GIFs, JPGs, and ERDAS.

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