The Triad approach offers significant benefits to most sites undergoing characterization and remediation. These include the potential for reduced characterization costs, expedited schedules, enhanced stakeholder participation, and improved site decision-making. Improved site decision-making, in turn, can lead to remedial actions that are more effective (i.e., lower possibility of contamination being inadvertently missed) and efficient (i.e., quicker implementation, reduced total site characterization and remediation costs).