There was a front page report in the Sydney Morning Herald a whileback that showed the perils of poorly managed land decontamination. Highlighting how important an effective remediation is for a contaminated site, it reports on a fishing ban in Sydney Harbour, due to unhealthily high levels of dioxins. Australian Enviro Services specialise in asbestos […]
CONTAMINATED LAND – THE POTENTIAL HAZARDS
Land deemed contaminated is land area that may detrimentally effect human health and environmental health. Increasingly, those sites labelled as contaminated could also present important land planning, legislative and/or economic repercussions. Due to the direct and indirect effects on land usage and value, the consideration of contamination and solutions to it have emerged in significance […]
WHAT IS LAND CONTAMINATION?
Contamination means the condition of land or water where any chemical substance or waste has been added at above acceptable background levels and represents, or potentially represents, an adverse health or environmental impact. Contamination of land most often results from past land uses. It can arise from a range of activities that took place on […]
CONTAMINATED LAND SITES – MOVING FORWARD
Why is Contaminated Land Important Now? A site deemed to be “contaminated land” is a specified land site that could possibly damage humans, flora and fauna. Sites called potentially contaminated could also have noteworthy usage/planning, legislative and/or monetary effects. Contaminated land may contain asbestos which needs specialised asbestos removal services. Predominantly due to the many […]
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 […]
