Those on JISCmail will no doubt already seen Theresa Cory’s message drawing attention to the now sparsely populated UK Government’s webpage on Land contamination:technical guidance. This page annouces that “Some documents from the 1990s which […]
A question that continues to be asked and probably needs to asked given the fact that different environmental conditions may result in unexpected outcomes with the respect to the fate of potential contaminants. The University […]
Discussions on standards and quality are still much of a debate for the contaminated land industry. Whilst the days of using ICRCL Trigger Values without reading the footnotes may be long gone, as an industry, […]
This month saw the UK Climate Change Commitee (UKCCC) publish the above report; a culmination of three years work by hundreds of leading scientists. The background to the work can be found in the video […]
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 […]
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 […]