SCP-7962
Safe
✓
high confidence
SCP-7962
Expected annual
$22K
One-time setup
$178K
Annual recurring
$22K
Personnel
1
Initial one-time setup costs are modest (~$178k dominated by a large contingency reserve for worst-case scale-up), with routine annual costs driven by part-time staff, legal/retainer fees, and monitoring (~$21.6k/yr). Main drivers: contingency reserve, retainer/legal, and staff/monitoring.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $178K
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $22K/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$22K/yr
Normal year with routine inspections, monitoring, retainer payments, and no escape or major incidents.
no incidents
scheduled maintenance
routine inspections
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Minor Incident
$27K/yr
Small containment breach or escape of a few instances requiring site-level recovery and overtime.
partial escape inside site
on-site recovery operations
overtime for techs
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Aquatic Submergence
$32K/yr
One or more instances reach natural water (pond/stream) requiring retrieval, public management, and possible sample loss.
escape to external water
public exposure
on-water retrieval
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Catastrophic Scale Up
$122K/yr
Reclassification or discovery of contagious/replicating behaviour necessitating large-scale aquatic containment, quarantine, and public responses.
evidence of replication or contagion
multiple waterborne releases
public health/quarantine actions
Personnel
1 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Research Technician / Site Tech | 1 | Assigned technician responsible for weekly inspections and logging (~0.05–0.1 FTE equivalent); staffing cost reflected in staff_wages. |
Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item estimates and ranges for equipment, staff time, retainers, and contingencies; SCP is Safe-class with a single documented minor incident, so routine costs are well-bounded. Large-scale contingency remains uncertain but is explicitly budgeted separately.