New Civil Engineer
Tom Cairney
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Finding the best test Tom Cairney looks at the problems of selecting a laboratory testing regime appropriate to identifying actual risks in contaminated land investigations
1-May-1999
When the Environment Act (1995) comes into force this summer, contaminated land assessments will have to be justified on the 'source-pathway-target' basis. This is likely to exacerbate an already obvious weakness in current contaminated land investigation practice: selecting an appropriate testing regime to identify what risks actually exist.
