ABSTRACT

SOURCES OF GROUND CONTAMINATION The industrial processes that need to be checked at the desk study stage of the site investigation include the following.

(Former) public utilities and transportation

These include old gasworks, coal carbonisation plants and ancillary by-product works, coal and metal mines, old sewage farms and works (where the concentrations of metals in the soil may be high), railways and sidings, dockyards, and any former hospital sites.