Abstract
The extent to which contaminated land is a problem in the UK is unkown since little measurement or recording of sites has taken place in the past. The shape of UK industry during the last century, with
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the widespread use of manufactured and later natural gas
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significant mining activity
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landfill of waste in the holes excavated for minerals
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a buoyant heavy chemical industry
makes one suspect that contamination is fairly widespread, especially on industrial and urban sites which have been derelict for some while. However the extent of contamination only comes to light when work is carried out on the land for the purposes of development.
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Thairs, E.F. (1990). Contaminated Industrial Sites. In: Arendt, F., Hinsenveld, M., Van Den Brink, W.J. (eds) Contaminated Soil ’90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3270-1_12
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