Brownfield Land in Scotland 2014

Key Topics

• Aims undertaken for Health Protection Scotland to more accurately assess the risks to human health
• Achieve improved waste management and risk assessment when developing contaminated land by work being undertaken by the Scottish Government
• Recent changes affecting monitoring and laboratory analysis
• Enable better risk assessment of contaminated land under Part 2A by thing development of Category 4 Screening Levels by DEFRA
• Groundwater as a driver for remediation risk assessment
• Asbestos in soil
• Waste Management & Re-Use of Materials
• The threats caused by rising mine waters in abandoned mines
• Divert waste from landfill by developing and using a Soil Treatment Center
• Practical solutions to satisfy new waste management guidelines for the cost
• Using Pas100 compost and digestate on brownfield land for crop production
• Disposal and re-use of peat and natural soils to minimize waste and satisfy regulatory requirements
• The risks and viability of installing renewable technology as part of a long-term remediation strategy
• Opportunities for Remediating Brownfield Land
• The feasibility of landfill mining
• The potential of biomass from energy crops grown on brownfield
• Risk assessment and remediation of radioactive or heavy metal contaminated sites