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Common Forum News Letter #. 41 - November, 27th 2009
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by Dr. D. Darmendrail |
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Summary
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Many thanks to those who have already answered to the questionnaire updating the legal framework on contaminated land management in European Member States.
I would like to remind you that the official deadline is end of February, 2010.
As discussed in Helsinki, the country datasheets will then be posted on our website. This publication should enhance the understanding of national policies and practices in contaminated land management.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Dominique
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COMMON FORUM MEETING IN HELSINKI: FINAL REPORT |
The final report of the COMMON FORUM meeting, held in Helsinki (September 18, 2009) is now available.
(PDF file - 161 KB)
The meeting presentations are also available.
As discussed after the french presentation on contaminated sites closed to sensitive sites, here is a link towards one of the guides used in the Norwegian day-care center and contaminated soil project.
Thanks to Kine Martinsen.
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| NEXT COMMON FORUM MEETING IN TRIEST |
The Spring 2010 CF meeting is planned on the 21st of April 2010, in Triest, Italy, back to back to the joint CF NICOLE workshop (see below).
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| JOINT WORKSHOP NICOLE-COMMON FORUM |
A Joint workshop NICOLE-Common Forum will be held on 22-23 April 2010, in
Triest, Italy. We do hope that you'll be able to attend this Joint workshop and to contribute actively to some of the sessions.
Theme:
Contaminated land management:
opportunities, challenges and financial consequences
of evolving legislation in Europe.
Please mark your diary. End of January a preliminary program should be ready for dissemination.
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| STANDARDS FOR CONTAMINATION OF SURFACE WATER, GROUND WATER, SEDIMENTS AND SOIL |
Synthesis of the answers received after Roman's request (19/11/2009)
now available. (Slovak Republic request)
(PDF file - 191 KB)
Should Common Forum members wish to complete the document for their country, they are welcomed to contact:
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| UKEA - CLEA 1.06 UPDATE |
The Environment Agency have published the latest and improved version of their Contaminated Land Exposure Assessment (CLEA) software. The new CLEA software version 1.06, is identical to the CLEA software version 1.05, but it restores the integrity of the output reports.
The CLEA software version 1.05 handbook is still relevant to version 1.06 and has not been changed.
More information
Thanks to UKEA News Letter # November 2009 |
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| NICOLE NEWS 2009 |
NICOLE News 2009 includes articles on:
Sustainable Remediation; NICOLE’s new chair woman; the NICOLE Douai Workshop; KORA natural attenuation research; the recent NICOLE Madrid and Leuven Workshops; SG/SPG/ISG updates; Working Group Updates; New Working Groups; a new book on contaminated sites; the Heracles project – improving consistency in risk assessment; Environmental liability transfer; Common
Forum Update; Snowman Update; NICOLE and other networks supporting in situ remediation; Environmental law basics and Soil in EU policies.
Authors: NICOLE -
Year of publication: 2009 -
Size: 0.85 MB
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| EUGRIS CORNER |
New Documents on EUGRIS, the platform for European contaminated soil and water information. Resources, events projects and news items added on EUGRIS can be viewed at:
http://www.eugris.info/whatsnew.asp.
Then select the appropriate month and year for the updates in which you are interested. However, here is a selection of new additions to EUGRIS prepared by Paul Bardos (r3 Environmental Technology Ltd) for Common Forum members.
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| FORTHCOMING EVENTS |
ConSoil 2010
11th International UFZ-Deltares/TNO
Conference on Management of Soil, Groundwater and Sediment
As announced in Helsinki, CONSOIL 2010 will be held in Salzburg, Austria. Please find thereafter a general information sent by the Organising committee. The Autumn 2010 CF meeting will be back to back to this conference as agreed with Harald.
From 22 to 24 of September 2010, the 11th International UFZ-Deltares/TNO Conference on Management of Soil, Groundwater and Sediment “ConSoil 2010” will be held in Salzburg, Austria.
The Consoil conferences offer a platform to scientists, companies and authorities to present and exchange news and knowledge on the management of soil-groundwater-sediment.
Call for Abstracts
The Programme Committee invites those who wish to contribute to the conference to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation.
Deadline for submission: 21 December 2009.
For detailed information on ConSoil and the Call for Abstracts: www.consoil.de
Exhibition
Regular part of the ConSoil conferences is the exhibition. Exhibitor information can be found on www.consoil.de.
We should be pleased if you would forward this message to persons who might be interested in ConSoil.
ConSoil 2010 is organised in cooperation with:
- Land of Salzburg
- Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
- Environment Agency Austria
Dominique Darmendrail
(Member of the ConSoil Programme Committee)
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SETAC 2010
20th Science and Technology for Environmental Protection
The 20th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting will be held in Seville, Spain from 23 to 27 of May 2010.
The SETAC Europe Annual Meeting is Europe's biggest meeting on environmental toxicology and chemistry with more than 1500 presentations in parallel platform sessions and poster sessions, participants and scientific speakers from academia, business and government and a blend of scientists and practioners, researchers and regulators all in attendance.
For more information and updates on the meeting, please check our website http://seville.setac.eu regularly.
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SARCL-2010
Sustainable Approaches in Remediation of Contaminated Land
will be held at Ghent, Belgium, June 8-10, 2010.
CSME-2010
Contaminated Site Management in Europe
will also be held in Ghent Belgium, October 19-21, 2010.
International Advisory Committees from recognized expert from most European Countries have been chosen to organize/promote these conferences.
Please note that the deadlines for abstracts submission for the SARCL-2010 and CSME-2010 are Friday, February 26, 2010 and Friday, April 30, 2010, respectively. If you have any question please contact hussain@alekabi.com
For more informatin please check conferences’ website
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