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Editorial
Welcome to the second EURODEMO+ e-news!
Like always, we’d like to draw your kind attention to our EURODEMO+ activities, which we think show a good drive of our initiative. Besides, we are happy to inform you about interesting events and new publications which support our common goal and in which E+ partners are strongly involved.
Yours sincerely,
Dietmar Müller and Yvonne Spira
EURODEMO+ secretariat
Environment Agency Austria
EURODEMO+ Activities
Austrian Technology Platform preparing an overview and classifications of in-situ technologies
The Austrian chapter of EURODEMO+ is established as working Group “Technology Platform” of the Austrian Association for Contaminated Sites Management (AACSM). In preparing a “Quickscan” regarding in-situ remediation technologies the responsible expert panel adopted the specific chapter classifying the development of a variety of in-situ technologies by December 2009. This part of the report was published in January 2010 and supports research focus lines defined for the period 2010 to 2012. The full report providing an overview on in-situ technologies available and under development shall be published by June 2010 (in German). Considering future remediation needs in Austria selected technologies will be recommended for
- being available and having increased market potential,
- further development through demonstration projects and
- having research and development needs as well as possible future market potentials.
E+ contact requests
Between November 2009 and February 2010, the following three EURODEMO+ requests have been received and circulated among the partners:
- CEE contacts request (TASK, DE) for training initiatives of remediation technologies in Central and East European countries (Nov 2009)
- ISCR contacts request (Adventus Europe, AT) for consortia, organizations interested in exploring in-situ chemical reduction remediation technologies (Nov 2009)
- Phytoremediation projects contact request (European Bioenergy Research Institute, UK) regarding Heavy Metal contaminated sites remediated using phytoremediation (Feb 2010)
If you are interested to contribute or learn more, please contact the secretariat!
E+ Short Course at NORDROCS
A short course “Innovation and environmental stewardship in contaminated land management” will be delivered at the “3rd Joint Nordic Meeting on Remediation of Contaminated Sites” (NORDROCS, 15-16 September 2010, Copenhagen, DK), with the topics quality assurance, demonstration and verification being illustrated by European front-runners. A final discussion regarding innovation in contaminated land management will close the short course on 14.09.2010.
E+ presence at CONSOIL2010
CONSOIL 2010 (22-24 September 2010, Salzburg, AT) will host two sessions on “Sustainable remediation”, which will be jointly organized by the EURODEMO+ partners CL:AIRE and the Environment Agency Austria.
Other Events - Calendar
| 23-27 May 2010 | Seville, Spain | SETAC Europe 20th annual meeting "Science and Technology for Environmental Protection" including a technology transfer event |
| 9-11 June 2010 | Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands | 3rd International Conference on Quantified Eco-Efficiency Analysis for Sustainability |
| 30 June - 1 July 2010 | Leipzig, Germany | 2nd TASK Symposium "Use Contaminated Sites – Investigate, Remediate, Revalue - Strategies and Technologies Made in Germany" |
| 14-18 September 2010 | Rimini, Italy | 14th International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition “Biotechnology for the Sustainability of Human Society” |
New Publications
Guidance on Verification of Remediation of Land Contamination
A new report by the Environment Agency explains how to check whether the remediation of land contamination has proved successful and met the intended goals.
This new report “Verification of Remediation of Land Contamination” offers guidance on designing a verification programme to increase confidence in the outcome of a remediation strategy. The document naturally follows on from CLR11 Model procedures for the Management of Land Contamination, and it is assumed that it will be followed and referenced by UK consultants in all of their verification / summary reports in future. It can be downloaded from CL:AIRE.
Green remediation proceedings at EUGRIS
The GreenRemediation Conference in Copenhagen was successfully carried out in November 2009. 120 participants from 12 countries joined the 2 day event sharing knowledge and building networks. The Proceedings with papers, presentations and posters are now available on EUGRIS.
SURF UK Framework
A recent publication of the SuRF-UK Framework titled “A Framework for assessing the sustainability of soil and groundwater remediation” has just been published by CL:AIRE. It is the first authoritative framework to guide sustainability assessment.
Outlook
Call for interest - EURODEMO+ meeting at ConSoil2010 in Salzburg
The secretariat proposes to organize a EURODEMO+ meeting back-to-back to the ConSoil2010 conference – please indicate your interest to participate!
Call for interest - E+ sustainable remediation conference 2011
The EURODEMO+ secretariat raises the idea to organize an international conference on sustainable remediation in 2011. This is a call for interest to our partners to provide a conference venue and co-organizers!
Call for interest - E+ feature initiatives, technologies, sites
The EURODEMO+ secretariat is looking for more strategic initiatives, remediation technologies and sites suitable as E+ feature projects. Please contact the secretariat if you know suitable projects!