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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.
Technical guidance on the management of contaminated land including how to investigate, assess and manage the risks.
A critical review of the available data on the fate and transport behaviour of a number of contaminants.
How to select compliance points for the assessment of risks to groundwater from land contamination.
Structured approach to assessing the risks to ecology from chemical contamination in soils.
This report describes the toxicological basis and approaches to deriving Health Criteria Values that serve as benchmarks for protecting human health.
Guidance on the safe use of potentially contaminated residential land, gardens and allotments.
A report examining the evidence for chemical and physical pollutants in the sea around the UK and its Overseas Territories.
The effect of contaminant concentration on the rate of natural attenuation processes in UK aquifers is presented for 18 specific contaminants.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of contaminated land exposure for human health.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
Science Report. Attenuation of organic contaminants by mineral landfill liners is described.
How to control and avoid contamination in laboratory activities involving DNA evidence recovery and analysis.
Provides guidance on the suitability of individual soil vapour intrusion models.
The evidence of faecal contamination, sources of contamination and control measures. Plus a summary of projects addressing evidence gaps.
Offering guidance people who cause contamination, affected land owners and developers.
Your tap water should be clear and bright - water quality advice, reporting problems, how to complain
A study to review existing knowledge on background levels of contaminants in Scottish soils.
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