Role of the Contaminated Land Consultant

Guest speaker: Clair Chamley from ARUP

Week 3 Key takeaways:

• What is contaminated land?- Potentially harmful substances in soil water and ground gas/ vapor (large or small-scale industry)

• Environmental Protection 2A- Whoever caused the contamination (polluter or owner) pays to clean it up

• National Planning policy framework: Town and Country Planning Act- responsibility of the developer to ensure the site is good for use rather than the polluter

• Good early assessment can minimise impacts and max benefits

  
  

Order of Operations:

1. Land Contamination Risk Management (LCRM)

2. Preliminary risk assessment

3. Ground Investigation to test for a range of contaminants

4. Ground investigation

5. Detailed Risk assessment

• Remediation can be engineering-based (carry away) or process-based (reduce concentrations)

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