CONTAMINATED LAND SITES – SOME CONSIDERATIONS

What is contaminated land?

It is land area that could reasonably put in jeopardy human health and the environment. Increasingly, sites noted as ‘contaminated’ could also present considerable planning, legislative and fiscal implications. Because of the growing list of effects (environmental, social, commercial), awareness of land contamination and ways to remedy it have grown in importance as land demand continues to grow. Land contaminated with asbestos containing materials will need specialised assistance to remove asbestos safely.

What policies affect contaminated land?

Increasingly, organisations, and, vitally, many government departments have developed a better community understanding of the unavoidable influences of contaminated land-sites. Over time, this has brought about the progression of superior efficiency and methodology for remediating land that has been contaminated. Those who work with land sites would have noticed that state and federal governments now have a sometimes-complex array of policies and laws guiding the list of uses and the restoring of affected land sites.

What is land contamination?

Without doubt there are a large variety of potential problems corresponding to land contaminations. These may include contaminated groundwater, further contamination of nearby sites, and accumulated contaminants on site. Significant concern are to be exercised in the analysis, job planning and restitution for the nominated site in order to properly manage the affected site’s contamination.

In order to guide you around the array of potential challenges of properly bio-remediating any site contamination, please get in touch with our Site Remediation team.

Australian Enviro Services are a asbestos removal company in Sydney. They also offer professional waste management and contaminated soil remediation.