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Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Land can be contaminated by things like: heavy metals, such as arsenic,…
Your local council or an environment agency will decide if your land is…
The rules for who’s responsible for contamination and how to deal with it…
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Guidance on the safe use of potentially contaminated residential land, gardens and allotments.
This guidance and information is aimed at helping readers understand the regime and regulation of land affected by radioactivity.
Technical guidance on the management of contaminated land including how to investigate, assess and manage the risks.
Reports showing progress on dealing with contaminated land in England and Wales.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of contaminated land exposure for human health.
This guidance is intended to explain how local authorities should implement the regime on contaminated land.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
This document explains the approaches for assessing the risk posed by soil contaminated with the genotoxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
This report (RCE-2) provides advice on the designation of radioactively contaminated land in response to proposals from Defra.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of radioactively contaminated land exposure for human health.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can do a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soils and groundwater.
A series of briefing notes which provide more information about land affected by radioactivity.
The effect of contaminant concentration on the rate of natural attenuation processes in UK aquifers is presented for 18 specific contaminants.
Guidance on the valuation of hereditaments built on or affected by contaminated land and list maintenance matters flowing from this.
Guidance for local authorities on visual inspection and limited surveys for radioactive contaminated land.
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