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Month: March 2017

Groundwater activity exclusions from environmental permits

March 24, 2017 Claire Dickinson Contaminated Land

On 14 March 2017 the Environment Agency added to their suite of online Guidance by publishing information on those extremely low-risk discharges which are not considered groundwater activities but are considered exclusions and as such […]

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Online Groundwater protection technical guidance published 14 March 2017

March 24, 2017 Claire Dickinson Contaminated Land

In essence this online guidance published by the Environment Agency (EA) assists in understanding the risks, implications and legalities of undertaking activities which may give rise to substances entering the groundwater with respect to groundwater […]

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Update to EA’s Groundwater Protection: Principles and practice (GP3)

March 24, 2017 Claire Dickinson Contaminated Land

The Environment Agency (EA) has just published “The Environment Agency’s approach to groundwater protection” March 2017 version 1.0. It contains position statements which provide information for different sectors about the Environment Agency’s approach to managing […]

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Near miss between a train and a track worker at Shawford

March 24, 2017 Claire Dickinson Geotechnics

The RAIB has just published a report looking at why a track worker only narrowly missed being struck by a train travelling at 85mph having gone onto the railway to locate a reported rail defect […]

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Construction and Risk of Suicide

March 24, 2017 Claire Dickinson Health and Safety

Construction is known as a high risk profession with respect to health and safety and this apparently includes mental health.  Last week saw the UK Government website post analysis from the Office of National Statistics […]

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Last Chance to join SoBRA for £10!

March 22, 2017March 24, 2017 Claire Dickinson Contaminated Land

Further to recent email correspondence on contaminated-land-strategies@JICMAIL.ac.uk, David Jackson (SoBRA Website Co-ordinator) advised that membership of SoBRA for the private sector would increase to £25per annum from 1st April 2017. So if you have been […]

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New_ CIRIA’s Asbestos in soil and made ground good practice site guide (C765)

March 22, 2017March 29, 2017 Claire Dickinson Contaminated Land

Officially launched at the end of January and already topping CIRIA’s booksales, this short A5 site guide is a “gem” in the suite of asbestos soils guidance with its easy to understand flow charts for […]

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GeoEnv_MattersClaire Dickinson@GeoEnv_Matters·
10 May

What a fabulous way to finish this year's University of Portsmouth MSc module in #contaminatedland and #remediation with Steve Jackson's talk on Remediation ( when the fun starts!) . Thank you Steve for setting up such a great workshop that gave our st…https://lnkd.in/ecSTRXue

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24 Mar

Would you have guessed all eight top sources of land based #microplastics input into the OSPAR catchment?
I didn't! Why not checkout the latest OSPAR publication 'Assessment document of land-based inputs of microplastics in the marine environment' at https://www.ospar.org/documents?v=38018&msclkid=7acc4208ab5111ecb30d522a10e7cef0

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22 Mar

Well, I think the conversation has well and truly started about #climatechange, #landcontamination and #landcondition at the SiLC (Specialist in Land Condition Register Ltd) Forum today. Some great presentations by my fellow speakers Joe Jackson and Helen…https://lnkd.in/d3Dt8GCZ

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Gutted to have tested positive for COVID-19 as was looking forward to meeting David Holmes to talk about #NAPL with our PhD Researcher Ajibola Oyebamiji and Mohammad Hoque before David Holmes shares his extensive knowledge with ou…https://lnkd.in/da5eRbwe https://zarach.org/

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