Congratulations to Steve Forster, the team at CL:AIRE, the project funders and everyone else involved for producing our own industry guidance on how to apply the Control of Abestos Regulations 2012 to asbestos contaminated soils […]
Yesterday saw the Secretary of State for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) confirm that despite the Lead Ammunition Group’s report “Lead Ammunition, Wildlife and Human Health” recommending a ban on the use […]
If you are, did you know that according to the NHS Radon is responsible for approximately 3% of all lung cancer deaths and that since 2008 the Health Protection Agency (HPA)* advised that This year […]
PFAS is just one of the emerging contaminants of concern at the moment but with the EU in 2013 setting an annual average environmental quality standard (AA-EQS) for PFOS in surface freshwater of 0,00065 μg/l […]
Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHs) are often detected in the UK as part of a suite of soil analysis used when assessing land quality. There has been much debate over the risks posed by PAHs in soil and […]
Soil moisture content is the most critical parameter in determining the releasibility of asbestos fibres from soil, and yet there is very little understanding of what typical UK soil moisture levels are, or how they […]
How often when doing an investigation do you consider whether asbestos may be present beneath a ground floor slab? And how unexpected is it? Perhaps more common than you might think. Yesterday both WYG and […]
This is the latest Direction to the Environment Agency for the implementation of Articles 3, 4 and 5 of the Groundwater Directive.and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525723/groundwater-ea-direction.pdf As a result The Groundwater (Water Framework Directive) […]
This is just one of the questioned answered in the Environment Agency’s document on the Guiding Principles on Land Contamination “GPLC2 FAQs, technical information, detailed advice and references“. It is interesting to note, that whilst […]
What do you know about FAME? Does it live for ever? Well if you want to know more why not visit the CONCAWE website and take a look at their recent publication The Natural Attenuation […]