The UK has a considerable legacy of land contamination.

Such land may

be remediated in response to various remediations.
In addition, contaminated land will require an EIA under the EIA
Regulations 1999. (Colvin, 2011).
The contaminated land regime is set out in part A2 of the Environmental
Protection Act 1990. Part 2A was interested into the 1990 Act by section
57 of the Environmental Act 1995, came into force on 1 April 2000.
(Witherington, 2011).
Usually the local authority responsible for clean-up, however, a special
site the Environmental Agency is responsible for remediation.
Remediation of contaminated land can be an expensive and technically
difficult process.
The Landfill Directive was accepted by the European Community in
1999. It looks after landfill site, and it is working for improving the
environment. (Environment Agency, 2014).
The Landfill Directive has many targets:

Waste minimisation and increase level of recycling and recovery

To prevent negative effects on the environment, especially the
pollution of surface water, ground water, soil and air.
To control methane gas emission in landfill.

Some important knowledge before the process of remediation

land. (Environment Agency, 2014).
1. Provide an overview of the understanding of remediation techniques
2. Knows which pollutant linkages are to be subject to remediation.
3. Conduct an environmental and social impact assessment of remediation
techniques
4. Conduct a cost assessment of remediation techniques

5. Assess the status of the use of remediation techniques in England and

Wales
4. Provide a written summary report and disseminate the results
The UK Sustainable Remediation Forum (SuRF-UK) framework document
(SuRF-UK,
2010) provides a mechanism for practitioners to start to undertake
sustainability assessments using an agreed

Feasible remediation contaminated land (Environment Agency,

2014).

First, covers development of the remediation strategy, and includes

reviewing existing information and that collected in the

development of this strategy.

Next, developing the verification plan involves identifying the
roles, responsibilities and sampling approach needed to show that

remediation goals have been satisfied.

Then, the verification plan is implemented and reported. This
verification report should provide a complete record of all
remediation activities on site and the data collected to support

compliance with agreed objectives and criteria.

Finally, long-term monitoring and maintenance may be needed to
satisfy long-term remediation goals.

References
Colvin, S. (2011). The UK legislative context. In J. Brady, A. Ebbage & R.
Lunn (Eds.),

Environmental management in organisations: The

IEMA handbook.(2nd ed.). (pp. 103-129). London: Earthscan.

Witherington, P. (2011). Contaminated land. In J. Brady, A. Ebbage & R.
Lunn (Eds.),

Environmental management in organisations: The

IEMA handbook.(2nd ed.). (pp. 325-334). London: Earthscan.

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Land Contamination, Contaminated Land Report 11. Bristol:
Almondsbury 4 UD. Retrieved December, 10,2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/managing-landcontamination
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