ATSDR Site Tool

What is the ATSDR Brownfield and Land Reuse Site Tool^©?

This Tool is a rapid site screening and multiple chemical exposure dose calculating tool that allows users to assess sites by past/future use, institutional controls, sensitive populations, and suspected or confirmed contamination.

Why was the Brownfield and Land Reuse Site Tool^© Developed?

A survey of local health departments indicated a need for a system to:

• Provide inventory of sites
• Store records for public inquiry of sites
• Respond to inquiries
• Catalogue institutional controls, health concerns, violations, spills, contaminants, and emergency response events related to the property.
• Provide a “How To” guide to conduct a site visit
• Evaluate exposures by defining exposed populations and sub-groups, multiple exposure pathways, user specific ingestion rates for population groups or use defaults
• Calculate doses using ranges of exposure parameters, 95% Upper Confidence Limits, geometric mean, and other statistical parameters.
• Test the data for Normal/Log Normal distributions. Import and process laboratory data (10,000 data points per minute throughput)
• Verify calibrations.
• Troubleshoot analytical problems.
• Set up quality-assurance or quality-control programs.
• Conduct research and development.

What entities are using the ATSDR BF/LR Site Tool^©?

• Health Departments (from local to state level)
• Development Community
• Regulatory Agencies
• Planners
• Environmental Health Professionals