Geo-environmental Standards Update
In case you were not aware the most recent Land Forum Meeting included an update on Geoenvironmental Standands for Soil and Site Assessment which can be downloaded as a supporting document to the Land Forum […]
Contaminated Land
UXO and the Construction Cycle
Despite more than seventy years passing since the UK was a target for mass bombing raids, not a month seems to go by without another story of UXO being discovered . ‘Undetonated bombs from World […]
CIRIA Launch Contaminated Land Guidance Tool
Whilst the www.gov.uk website may have tried to pare guidance on land contamination to the essentials to support policy those in the industry regularly will be reaching for a wealth of guidance published by a […]
Mind the Gap between Asbestos in Soils Guidance and Training!
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012), Regulation 10 requires every employer to ensure that adequate information, instruction and training is given to their employees who are,or who are liable to be, exposed to […]
British Drilling Association Urges Main Contractors to Ensure Subcontractor Drilling Compliance
Following in the wake of recent survey findings indicating lack of knowledge of relevant Technical Standards for the drilling industry (EC7), The British Drilling Association (BDA) is urging main contractors to check and ensure compliance […]
S4ULs and US EPA’s Toxicological Review of Benzo[a]pyrene
Although some months have passed since the US EPA published online their finalised toxicological review dated 19 January 2017 it is only recently that LQM have provided an update as to what effect, if any […]
Groundwater activity exclusions from environmental permits
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 […]
Online Groundwater protection technical guidance published 14 March 2017
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 […]
Update to EA’s Groundwater Protection: Principles and practice (GP3)
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 […]
Last Chance to join SoBRA for £10!
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 […]