Addressing contaminated sites: from dig-and-dump to smart land management
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The Global Symposium on Soil Pollution #GSOP18 | 2 - 4 May 2018 | FAO Hq
Ms. Lucia Buvé, UMICORE NV, Belgium
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Addressing contaminated sites: from dig-and-dump to smart land management
2. Addressing Contaminated sites : from dig-
and-dump to smart and sustainable land
management
Lucia Buvé
Chair of NICOLE
Rome May 2018
Network for Industrially Co-ordinated Sustainable Land Management in Europe
3. What is NICOLE?
NICOLE is
- a unique network in Europe, linking contaminated
land management professionals from the industry,
service providers and academics
- a leading organisation in the development and
promotion of state-of-the-art solutions for
contaminated land management
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4. NICOLE Timeline
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Today
1996 1999 2002 2008 2011 2016 2018
NICOLE Started as a concerted action under
the 4th Framework Program of the
European Community
NICOLE becomes self-supporting
NICOLE is organized as
a non-profit
association under
Dutch law
Dec. 2009
NICOLE has 105
members
covering
industry, service
providers and
academics
NICOLE celebrates its
20 years of existance
5. NICOLE’S Objectives
Exchange
Opinion
Promoting
Collaborative
Research
Exchange
views
European
Regulation
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To identify research needs and
promote collaborative research that
will enable its members to identify,
assess and manage contaminated
sites more efficiently within a
framework of sustainability.
To communicate with
stakeholders inside
and outside Europe to
promote NICOLE’s
views.
To provide a European
forum for the exchange
of knowledge and ideas
about contaminated land
management - share best
practice.
6. NICOLE’S Activities – Interaction and
Cooperation with Regulators
Left: Joint Position Paper with Common Forum
On Risk-Informed and Sustainable Remediation
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• Interaction with regulators such
as Common Forum
• Participation European
Commission technical surveys
by providing positioning papers
7. NICOLE World
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NICOLA
Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Africa
Opened with the event October 2014 in Johannesburg South Africa
NICOLE Brasil
Latin America Network for Soil and Water Management
Supported by EKOS BRASIL
8. Addressing contaminated sites
• Mostly dealing with still existing historical legacy
• Past operational practices were not the same as today
• Causes of contamination :
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10. Addressing contaminated sites
• Remediation is cutting (one of) the links in the risk
model between source-pathway-receptor :
• Remediation techniques mainly focus on the source :
• Removal : excavation and landfill, soil washing, pump&treat, SVE...
• Immobilisation : phyto-stabilisation, metal precipitation in
groundwater…
• Destruction : oxidation/reduction…
• Most of these techniques are still used, but :
• Better insight in sub-surface conditions due to improved assessment
tools, so that techniques are more efficient
• Dealing with “new” contaminants
• Incorporation of sustainability aspects
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13. Addressing contaminated sites
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• Brundtland report (1987)
• Sustainable Development “meets the needs of
present generation without compromising needs
of future generations”
• Integrates environment, social and economic
aspects
14. Addressing contaminated sites
A sustainable remediation project is one that represents
the best solution when considering environmental, social
and economic factors,
as agreed by the stakeholders
• Sustainable remediation is a holistic approach with two
inter-related components :
• Sustainability management: the discipline of integrating sustainability
assessment into contaminated land management decision making ;
• Sustainability assessment: the process of gaining an understanding of
possible outcomes across all three elements (environmental, social
and economic) of sustainable development.
• SR is an iterative process with feedback loops to
demonstrate performance and adjust when needed.
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16. Sustainability Assessment
1. Identify and review parties
2. Review objectives and starting points
3. Agree on conceptual site model
(source-path-receptor linkage)
4. Explore options
5. Agree on sustainability indicators
6. Agree on tools/methodology e.g.
Sustainability appraisal based on
decisive benefits and burdens
7. Assign priorities or weightings
8. Technical detailing of options
9. Agree on findings (Justification rule)