Contaminated Land Risk Assessment 2009

9:00       Registration and tea and coffee                

09:30    Welcome from the chair

Mike Quint, Independent Consultant 

09:40    Crunch-enomics

Leaving a brownfield site vacant because of the credit crunch can significantly increase both potential liabilities and remedial costs

• What happens?

• Ecological interests and constraints

• Financial implications and remedial costs

Jonathan Atkinson, Environmental Scientist, Environment Agency

Henry E Lang, Environment Director, Waterman Energy Environment & Design 
 

10:05    Living at home - too risky? How safe is your garden

Simon conducts a Part 2A style assessment of his own home to examine the conservatisms in the CLEA model

Simon Firth, Firth Consultants Ltd 

10:30    Making the most from your funding application to Defra

•   Common pitfalls in applications

•   How to make your application cohesive

•   How to ensure a more rapid and streamlined evaluation of submissions

Phil Whitaker, National Capital Projects Manager, Environment Agency

10:55    Q&A 

11:05    Coffee and tea break 

11.40  To infinity and beyond 
•   Risk Assessment vs Insurance?
•   Your risk
•   Your clients risk
Mathew Hussey, Associate Director, Tysers

12:05    Update on Health Criteria Values (HCVs)

•   Which HCVs differ from before?

•   Why are they different?

•   The Margin of Exposure concept

Frances Pollitt, Team leader - Health effects of chemicals in land, water and waste, Chemical

Hazards and Poisons Division, Health Protection Agency

12:30    Human health and unacceptable intake

•   How do the new SGV's help?

•   Recurring issues - what are they and why won't they go away?

•   What options might you have?

Mary Harris, Independent Consultant 

12:55    Your head on a block - Part 2A decisions
•   Key issues to consider when deciding whether a site meets Part 2A requirements for human health
•   Decision making process
•   How to avoid the common pitfalls
Dr Naomi Earl, Associate Land Quality, Atkins Environment 

13:20    Q&A  

13:30 Lunch Afternoon Chair
Simon Firth, Firth Consultants Ltd 

14:20    Data management and spatial statistics
•   Data Quality - does it matter
•   Paper...Pdf...Hmm that's useful
•   Excel... better- but what happens if the data changes
•   Database... great but how do I get the data in
•   Interpretation- CIEH/ CL:AIRE guidance document just one part of the storey
Rob Ivens, Scientific Officer, Mole Valley District Council 

14:45    Plugging the SGV Vacuum: The New LQM CIEH GAC

•   How have the new GAC been derived?
•   When and how should the GAC be used- what do they mean?
•   Limitations and misues of the GAC
Professor Paul Nathanail, LQM and the University of Nottingham

15:10    EIC's General Assessment Criteria- what are the numbers and what are the implications?
•   Project inception and aspirations
•   Collation of physical-chemical and toxicological data
•   Parameter selection and peer review process
•   GAC value and Report production
•   Uses and limitationsRob Reuter, Associate Director, Wardell Amstrong LLP 


15:35    Coffee and tea break 

16:10    Ecological risk assessment
•   Why understanding the wildlife on and around a site is important for avoiding potential liabilities in the context of the many existing and forthcoming regulatory regimes affecting brownfield sites
•   A case study using the new regulatory guidance on ecological RA will be used to illustrate how potential impacts on ecosystems from land contamination can be assessed and managed
Samantha Deacon, Environ UK

16:30    Use of Groundwater Models in Risk Assessment
Case studies will be presented where numerical groundwater flow and contaminant transport model representations are compared with analytical based packages to show how a better understanding of risk and the development of more cost effective remedial solutions was facilitated.
Sean Needham, Principal Hydrogeologist, URS Corporation Ltd

16:50 The use of XRF in the investigation of land contamination
•   How XRF works
•   Case study on allotments
•   Comparison with traditional analysis
•   Advantages and limitations
•   Conclusions
Jonquil Maudin, Acting Manager, Pollution Control Team, Bristol City Council 

17:10    Q&A

17:20   Close