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DECO/IMPEL PROJECT Project on Decontamination
and Monitoring Procedures

of Groundwater and Soils in Polluted
ex-Industrial Sites Dominique Darmendrail
(Common Forum) - Fabio Carella (ARPA
Lombardia) Malta, 1st / 4th, October
2013 Conference on Implementation and Enforcement
of Environmental legislation
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The 2006 EU Strategy on Soil Protection

• Soil is practically a non-renewable natural
  resource
• Soil performs crucial functions for human
  activities and ecosystems survival
• Costs of soil degradation are very high and are
  mainly borne by society and not by the land users
• Soils are increasingly degrading or irreversibly
  lost accros the EU
• There is a need for a comprehensive approach

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Different threats to address
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Situation in European Member States / CF
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THE DECO PROJECT CONTEXT

• Remediation of contaminated sites is a strategic
  issue in the whole Europe (because the polluted
  areas compromise the possibility of a good land
  planning)
• No European dedicated legislation or guidelines
  governing the issue of soil, subsoil and
  groundwater contamination. Member State adopted
  national rules
• For this reason there is a need of good practices
  exchange among environmental authorities in
  Europe (in order to solve practical problems
  connected to technical, financial, as well as
  organizational issues)

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Regulatory environment at European level
NATURA 2000/ HABITATS Directives
REACH?
Waste Framework Directive
Guidelines For State-aid
Roadmap on Resources Efficiency
INSPIRE
Renewable Energies Directive
Landfill Directive
Strategy on waste prevention and recycling
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AIMS OF DECO PROJECT

• Identify good practices for soil and groundwater
  sites decontamination and monitoring
• Identify potocols for the remediation of
  ex-industrial areas
• At local, regional and national level in IMPEL
  member countries
• Compare the approaches and best practices in
  order to evaluate their application in different
  technical-operational and regulatory-procedural
  contexts

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DECO SOME COMMON CRITICAL ISSUES

• Determining who should pay and how to finance a
  decontamination action
• The risk analysis procedure is widely used in
  Europe to determine the acceptable level of
  substances into a specific area, but it is quite
  a complex instrument
• Legislation on reclamation is complex and the
  interactions with EU and national regulations on
  waste and water are not clearly defined.
• Procedures are very long and complex not only in
  terms of long time and high costs, but also for
  uncertain forecast

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DECO QUESTIONNAIRE FIRST PART

• Regulatory Issues
• Financial Issues
• Start of the Remediation Process
• Risk Management

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DECO QUESTIONNAIRE SECOND PART

• Preliminary Actions
• Investigation of Environmental Compartments
• Generic Assessment of Risks
• Site Specific Risk Analysis
• Remediation Work, Control of the Remediation Work
  Performed and Final Assessment
• Management of the site after remediation

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DECO PARTICIPANTS National and Local Authorities

• AUSTRIA Harald Kasamas
• BELGIUM Jean-Pierre Janssens
• FRANCE Jean-Luc Perrin Tina Leger
• ITALY Alessandra Negriolli Fabio Carella
  Beatrice Melillo Rocco Racciatti
• POLAND Wojciech Barczewski
• PORTUGAL Álvaro Barroqueiro
• SPAIN Monica Medina Perez
• CZECH REPUBLIC Daniel Gruza
• GERMANY Birgit Harpke
• LITHUANIA Radiene Rasa Kadunas Kestutis

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DECO PROJECT STEPS
STEP1
Discussion on the first part of the Format (i)
General aspects and management, legislation.
(ii)Starting of the procedures and activation of
the first investigations. (iii) Risk management.
(iv) Funding each issue was analyzed and
processed in relation to the answers received by
the Member States participating to the Project
First meeting Paris 3rd and 4th of June 2013
STEP2
Discussion on the second part of the Format (i)
Preliminary Actions. (ii) Investigation of
Environmental Compartments. (iii) Generic
Assessment of Risks. (iv) Site Specific Risk
Analysis. (v) Remediation Work, Control of the
Remediation Work Performed and Final Assessment,
(vi) Management of the site after remediation.
each issue will be analyzed and processed in
relation to the answers received by the Member
States participating to the Project
Second meeting Milan 24th and 25th of October
2013
STEP3
Report gathering all the information exchanged
among IMPEL Member States on the implementation
of different procedures aimed to the
decontamination of groundwater and soils in
polluted ex-industrial sites. If possible,
publication of good practices examples, with
highlighted management methodologies and possible
suggestions, for the EU institutions and for
IMPEL Member States.
Conclusions Due June 2014
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DECO Paris Meeting , 3 and 4 of June -
Participants

• Austria Harald Kasamas
• Belgium Jean-Pierre Janssens
• France Dominique Darmendrail
• France Jean-Luc Perrin
• France Tina Léger
• Italy Fabio Carella
• Italy Beatrice Melillo
• Italy Alessandra Negriolli
• Italy Rocco Racciatti
• Italy Maria Debora Di Matteo
• Poland Wojciech Barczewski
• Portugal Álvaro Barroqueiro
• Spain Monica Perez Medina

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DECO Paris Meeting - Most Relevant Outcomes

• Chapter 1 - Regulatory Framework
• The rule of polluter pays" is not easy to apply
  because the polluter is not always detectable
  (especially for the historical contaminations)
  and the payer is not always clearly definable.
• The principle is easier to apply in new
  contaminations. It is applied in all EU
  countries.
• Interesting to see how this issue is addressed at
  European level different mechanisms and tools to
  apply the polluter pays principle.
• Need for connecting /integrating Contaminated
  site remediation legislation and other EU
  directives (Industrial Emissions IED,
  Environmental Liability ELD, Waste framework)
  and land planning.
• Criteria to identify Potentially Contaminated
  Site and Contaminated Site pollutant
  concentration criteria (limit values) vs.
  different criteria (kind of pollutant, industrial
  activity geological criteria intended use of
  the site risk to human health and the
  environment ..)

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DECO Paris Meeting - Most Relevant Outcomes

• Chapter 2 - Start of the remediation process
• Different List of facts and events to start a
  remediation process
• accidents land sales site transfer,
  extension or closure of polluting / industrial
  activities bankruptcy expropriation
  inspections and environmental monitoring
• Chain of liability
• polluter lt land owner or land leaser lt another
  person interested on the site lt State (or Public
  Authorities) for orphan sites
• Public action difficult to finance the
  remediation

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DECO Paris Meeting - Most Relevant Outcomes

• Chapter 3 Risk Management
• List of risk management measures
• emergency safety measures identify and remove
  the sources of pollution cut pathways of
  pollution restrictions of the uses of the site
  remediation permanent safety measures
  operational safety measures for operational sites
  (remediation at the end of the activities)
• No hierarchy between remediation measures/
  actions, but check the efficiency of measures
  and techniques adopted or planned (modeling vs.
  measuring short term solutions vs. long term
  source reduction/elimination vs.
  containment/monitoring .)
• Cost benefits analysis between different
  measures and techniques

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DECO Paris Meeting - Most Relevant Outcomes

• Chapter 4 Financial Issues
• Different financial instruments central budget,
  taxes, incentives, orphan sites remediation
  funds, targeted programmes, publicprivate
  partnerships, publicpublic partnerships,
  financial guarantees, foundations, etc.
• Public funds for orphan sites according to
  different agreements/programs national or
  European funds,
• Different level of actions (federal/national,
  regional).

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ICCL - International Committee on Contaminated
Land Common Forum Networks

• Network of contaminated land policy experts and
  advisors dealing with contaminated land
  management
• International scale (since 1993), Europe (since
  1994)
• Mission
• Being a platform for exchange of knowledge and
  experiences, for initiating and following-up of
  international projects among members
• Establishing a discussion platform on policy,
  research, technical and managerial concepts of
  contaminated land

• More information on www.commonforum.eu

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTIONDominique
Darmendrail d.darmendrail_at_brgm.fr Fab
io Carella f.carella_at_arpalombardia.it
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