- Long-Term Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability Strategy ›
- Clean the Past ›
- Control the Present ›
- Introduction
- Something in the Air? ›
- Protections: Sediment ›
- Protections: Sediment Control = Contaminant Retention
- Tour: Sediment Retention
- Protection #2: Trap and Remove Sediment
- Stormwater Controls
- Stop Contaminant Movement & the Individual Permit
- View of Stormwater Monitoring Sites
- Stormwater Control Structures
- How are the aftereffects of wildfire managed?
- Las Conchas Wildfire
- Stormwater Controls after Wildfire
- Los Alamos Canyon Weir
- 10,000 Willows
- Pueblo Canyon Grade Control Structure
- Early Notification Gages
- Protections: Sampling ›
- Protection #3: Sample and Survey
- Tour: Environmental Monitoring
- Groundwater Monitoring
- How does LANL determine where to put a monitoring well?
- Protection of the Groundwater Resource
- The Location Investigation Process
- The Location Determination Process
- Monitoring Well Placement
- Contaminant Sources
- Groundwater Monitoring Network
- View of Groundwater Monitoring Sites
- Well Placement Decision Process
- Create a Sustainable Future ›
- Multimedia ›
About the Long-Term Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Strategy
The value of a long-term horizon is to consider the nature of environmental stewardship, including current clean-up activities focusing on the environmental legacy of the Manhattan Project and Cold War.
Environmental stewardship is
- The management of legacy contamination,
- The management of current pollution control and waste management, and
- Future approaches to zero waste and pollution prevention.
Implemented through the certified Environmental Management System (EMS), planning consists of
- Long-term goals
- Supporting strategies
- Integrating actions
Environmental stewardship requires an active management system to provide a framework for work activity assessment, environmental risk assessment, corrective and preventive pathways, methods to set objectives and targets, and metrics to assess results.
Purpose of a Long-Term Strategy Horizon
- Plan for the future
- Provide facts for making decisions
- Build confidence with surrounding communities by communicating facts
- Implement through an Environmental Management System and adhere to the Environmental Governing Policy
- Perform outstanding environmental stewardship
- Ensure Laboratory viability