A3.10.6 Contaminated Land Treatment Technologies
Contaminated land treatment options is a specialist field and advice should always be sought from a competent organisation.
Two important factors that may affect remediation options are:
- Waste legislation and regulation affecting the potential for the treatment, disposal, recovery, recycling and reuse of contaminated soil.
- Designated land-use of a remediated site has a profound effect on site values and hence the options available for remediation.
Here we have split the technologies into the following groups:
- Biological
- Physico-chemical
- Physical
- Thermal
- Containment
Each is discussed in detail over the following pages.
Remediation techniques may also be categorised by the location where the remediation occurs:
- In-situ (on-site)
- Ex-Situ (off-site)