Environmental Assessment Ground Engineering
Waste Management and Minimisation Contamination Risk Assessment

The Model Procedures for the Management of Land Contamination

 
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The ‘MP’s’ were finally published in October 2004 after some 12 years of preparation. This document intends to set out a formal management process to guide contaminated land professionals through the decisions required when undertaking an assessment of contaminated land.

ESP are undertaking a comprehensive review of the document (over 200 pages of ‘guidance’) in view of developing a more transparent process to aid all those involved in ‘managing’ the land to make and record key MP decisions and report those decisions in line with MP requirements. We will contact you again when the output is available.

Proposed Renewal Area - South Wales
Merthyr Tydfil Council are promoting a major waterside residential development on a former colliery site.  The development design and phasing aims to:

ESP were commissioned to provide the following studies.

Air flows in Geotechnical Processes
Many of you will be aware of the Air Wall – a specialised product to control migration of noxious ground gases.  We have been developing the engineering basis of controlled directional air flows to improve performance of composting and bio remediation installations.

Composting is the main route whereby local authorities can achieve new targets on reducing waste to landfill but the technical barriers to expansion are formidable.  Chief among these are the Animal By Products Regulations (ABPR) which impose strict controls on including food waste in composts. Until recently, there has been a presumption that fully enclosed ‘in vessel’ systems would be needed to meet the demands of the Regulations.  We have recently completed a WDA funded study which shows that add-on hardware to produce controlled directional air flows offers the potential to upgrade many existing systems so that they could accept food waste. Many bio remediation projects utilise surface windrows and, again, incorporating controlled directional air flows could reduce treatment time from months to weeks.

 

London Olympic Development Area - Proposed mixed development



This project comprised a Preliminary and Generic Quantitative Risk Assessment to allow our client to make pre-purchase decisions regarding potential development restrictions and liabilities at a site within the redevelopment zone associated with the London 2012 Olympic development area.
  • The site is situated within an area of former heavy industry with land uses including Dye Works, Printing Ink Works, Ammonia Works, and Scrap Yards among others.

 

    Over 5m of Made Ground was proven at the site and significant contamination was identified, inorganic contaminants in particular.
  • These initial stages allowed scoping of necessary investigation to undertake a Detailed Quantitative Risk Assessment and projection of likely further investigation and potential remediation costs.
  
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