NATO/CCMSTour the table NL 2007

H. Johan van Veen

TNO

The Netherlands

Soil remediation in NL

• About 600.000 contaminated sites

• About 60.000 need some action

• Fit for use approach

• Risk-based (human; ecology; spreading)

• Annual budget about 500 million Euro

Risk based approachin the view of my son in 1988

Remediated sites in NL

• Annual number of remediated sites

• Target is about 2300

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Regional soil and groundwater quality management

Remediation of contaminated sitesSite and brownfield redevelopment.

Redevelopment of rural and urban areas

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Future developments

• Site remediation is no longer a political and social issue in NL;

• EU approach is based on soil threats (negative)

• To maintain and develop sustainable soil management it is necessary to link soil to the big issues (positive)

• Go with the flow

Follow the EU?

RELEVANT POLICY RELEVANT POLICY AREASAREAS

RawMaterials

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Climate change CO2-storage

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Soil needs innovation

Thanks for ideas and slides

RIVM

Harry Vermeulen

Winfred Blum

Thanks NATO

I learned la lot on different issues from various countries:– Techniques for investigations and remediation– Approaches to tackle contamination– Lessons learned what went well and what not– Why decontaminate

Thanks

• W hy decontaminate

• A pproaches to tackle contamination

• L essons learned what went well and what not

• T echniques for investigations and remediation