Course: GFM 103 Exterior Environmental Management

Reading Assignment

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Explore Various Exterior Sectors: Remediation

The following definition is a very challenging statement for a new student of Green Facilities Management:

“Environmental remediation deals with the removal of pollution, contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water for the general protection human health and the environment or from a brownfield site intended for redevelopment.”

As this time, merely investigate the Wikipedia definitions to these new and environmentally-broad site terms shown below:

1. Brownfield site
2. Contaminants
3. Environmental media
4. Groundwater
5. Human health
6. Pollution
7. Redevelopment
8. Sediment
9. Soil
10. Surface water
11. Figure 6-2: Site Conceptual Model – Exposure Pathway Schematic identifies the many exterior environmental issues in a brownfield site.