Models, Tools & Applications
Decision Support Tools for Incident Response
Managing waste resulting from disasters can be a complicated and resource intensive process, especially during large-scale incidents or severe hurricanes. EPA develops decision support tools to assist federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments with waste management decisions in the pre-planning, mitigation, response, and recovery phase of an incident.
Environmental Sampling and Analytical Methods Program
ESAM is a comprehensive program to facilitate a coordinated response following an intentional or accidental homeland security-related contamination incident. The ESAM website provides information that supports field and laboratory efforts to characterize contaminated sites and to remediate contamination.
Environmental Resilience Tools Wizard
The Environmental Resilience Tools Wizard addresses environmental concerns in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. This tool includes scientific models, guidance documents, case studies, checklists, datasets, fact sheets, and technical support.
EPA Science Models and Research Tools Search
EPA SMaRT Search is a searchable inventory of freely available models, tools, and databases from EPA's Office of Research and Development.
Radiological Decontamination Query Tool
The Radiological Decontamination Query Tool provides first responders, emergency planners, residents, and others in the community with an easy-to-use comparison of methods that could be used for cleanup.
Water Modeling Tools for Decision Support
EPA has a variety of water modeling tools to help communities understand the impact of decisions related to designing, planning, treatment, optimizing, emergency response, or managing water infrastructure systems.