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Overview
Despite
a plethora of technical guidance, experience has shown that failure
in meeting remediation requirements of contaminated land often occurs.
There are many potential reasons why remediation falls short of good
practice, including the following:
• Technology – sub-standard technology or the inappropriate
choice of technology for a particular site.
• Information Analysis - Insufficient background information
or poor interpretation of background information.
• Quality - poor quality of specification, workmanship and communication.
Risk assessment applies not just in devising technical solutions to
contamination problems, but also in ascertaining risks acceptable
to implementers, and their underwriters, in meeting the implementation
criteria. As technologies evolve, specifications are usually amended
for new projects rather than being appropriately written. At best,
outdated information is withdrawn and ‘state of the art’
information is inserted, but outdated thinking often remains. In addition,
the process is rarely critically evaluated to consider practical implementation
but rather becomes a collection of ‘standard form of words’.
Projects must develop that embrace quality and included in this is
continuous improvement to maintain good practice. This project addressed
the quality issues and in particular how to improve the quality of
land remediation and the incorporation of quality criteria into projects.
This project also set the ground work for the development of quality
schemes and third party certification in land remediation.
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project.
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