What is Land Contamination?

Contamination means the condition of land or water where any chemical substance or waste has been added at above acceptable background levels and represents, or potentially represents, an adverse health or environmental impact.

Contamination of land most often results from past land uses. It can arise from a range of activities that took place on the [...]

VENM Classification

Virgin Excavated Natural Material (VENM) is defined in the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 as ‘natural material (such as clay, gravel, sand, soil or rock fines) [...]

Manufactured Gas Storage Sites

Manufactured Gas Plant Sites (MGP) produced gas for lighting and heating as well as by products which were used as fuel or feedstocks for the production of chemicals. Though MGP facilities have long been decommissioned, the sites upon which they stood remain as a contamination legacy. [...]

Underground Storage Tanks (UST) - What contaminants are involved?

Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) store various products and wastes. These products are often dangerous to the environment and to human health in excessive quantities. [...]

Contaminated Land Sites – What are we Dealing With?

A contaminated land site is a designation of land that could threaten the environment and/or human health. Affected sites named contaminated could also present substantial land usage, regulatory and economic implications. Predominantly due to the many effects [...]

Contaminated Land – What’s at Stake?

What is contaminated land? It is a specified land site that may be likely to endanger human beings, fauna and flora. Particularly in recent years, sites identified as potentially contaminated could also present significant development, legal and/or economic considerations. [...]

Contaminated Land – What’s the Risk?

A site called contaminated is a designated zone of land that could potentially damage the health of people, animals and the environment. Sites that are nominated as contaminated may also have substantial usage/planning, regulatory and trade matters to consider. Because of the risk of the many potential effects on environmental, social and financial values, an [...]

Managing the Risks of Contaminated Land

Land contamination is an area of land that could reasonably cause harmful effects to human health and/or the environment. Land sites deemed potentially contaminated could have noteworthy land usage, law and monetary effects. Predominantly due to the many effects (social, economical, environmental), attentiveness to land contamination [...]

Contaminated Land – The Potential Hazards

Land deemed contaminated is land area that may detrimentally effect human health and environmental health. Increasingly, those sites labelled as contaminated could also present important land planning, legislative and/or economic repercussions. Due to the direct and indirect effects on land [...]

Remote and Iscolated Sites - How much will the job cost?

Remediating a contaminated site requires numerous unique issues. One of these is the impact of a remote or iscolated site on the scheduling and completion of site [...]

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