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Research and guidance for managing contaminated environments
CrcCARE’s Resource Centre provides access to technical guidance documents and research publications developed to support contamination assessment, risk management and remediation. Browse the collection below to explore resources used by environmental practitioners, regulators and researchers.
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Technical Guidance 14 (Part 1): Contaminant bioavailability and bioaccessibility – A scientific and technical review
Site assessment on land potentially affected by contamination is often undertaken at the termination or transfer of property leases, on property sale, as part of redevelopment t….
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Technical Guidance 13: Field assessment of vapours
Australia has no current guidance on the field assessment of volatile compounds for sites where vapours have the potential to migrate into buildings and pose risks to human health.
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Technical Guidance 12: Biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbon vapours
In this report we review the role of biodegradation in reducing petroleum hydrocarbon vapour intrusion into slab-on-ground buildings for application at a Tier 1 or human health screening level. This work comprises part of the efforts through CSIRO and the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) to provide […]
🔒 Pay to accessMore InformationTechnical Guidance 11: Characterisation of sites impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons – National guideline document
Sites impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons represent a significant proportion of Australia’s contaminated land, and proper characterisation of these sites is therefore a major concern. Poorly planned and executed site characterisation is likely to result in additional expense, both during the investigation and subsequent remediation, and inadequate or misleading data may also result in an increased […]
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Technical Guidance 10: Health screening levels for petroleum hydrocarbons in soil and groundwater
CRC CARE has undertaken the development of health-based screening levels (HSLs) for petroleum hydrocarbons to address an identified need for consistent human health risk assessment of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in Australian conditions. The HSLs represent the best collective view of the available science and application of Australian approaches on selection of health criteria and exposure […]
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Technical Guidance 09: Petroleum vapour model comparison
The review of the Australian National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure (NEPM), and workshops in Australia over a number of years involving regulators, industry representatives, consultants and researchers, have motivated the need to review and recommend a model of vapour behaviour for use in the development of health-based screening levels (HSLs) in Australia. […]
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Technical Guidance 08: Review of the current international approaches to total petroleum hydrocarbon assessment
This was designed to ascertain the basis to decisions on differences in the use of the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Working Group (TPHCWG) hydrocarbon fractions that are used internationally but are subject to adjustment in some cases. This was an outcome associated with discussions arising from the Technical Working Group and Petroleum Project Advisory Group meetings […]
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Technical Guidance 07: Development of policies for the handling, disposal and/or beneficial reuse of used foundry sands – a literature review
A large amount of research conducted recently and practical experience gathered worldwide over the last 30 years has indicated that with very few exceptions, beneficial reuse of used foundry sand (UFS) is not detrimental to human health or the environment. A large amount of research conducted recently and practical experience gathered worldwide over the last […]
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Technical Guidance 05: The development of a modular, constructed wetland system for salt, organic and nutrients removal from dairy wastewaters
This is the final report of a desk-top study designed to provide ‘proof-of-concept’ for the use of the giant reed (Arundo donax) in constructed wetland systems designed to remove contaminants from dairy processing factory wastewater streams. Activities were therefore restricted to information collection, collation and evaluation. No field or laboratory activities were planned or have […]
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Technical Guidance 04: The development of HSLs for petroleum hydrocarbons – an issues paper
In Australia, the normal approach for triggering further investigation during contaminated land investigations is to determine whether the concentration of contaminants of concern in soil and/or groundwater exceed published health screening levels (HSLs) or ecological investigation levels (EILs). These levels can also form the basis for clean-up criteria. In the case of petroleum hydrocarbons, a […]
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Technical Guidance 03: Natural attenuation – a scoping review
‘Natural attenuation’ refers to naturally occurring physical, chemical and biological processes, or any combination of those processes, that reduce the concentration or mass of polluting substances in groundwater. It has been recognised that natural attenuation processes can form the basis of a viable remediation strategy for contaminated sites. Monitored natural attenuation has the potential to […]
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Technical Guidance 02: Protocols and techniques for characterising sites with subsurface petroleum hydrocarbons – a review
Characterisation and monitoring of petroleum-impacted sites can be costly. Poor characterisation can lead to uncertain mapping of the mass and distribution of petroleum hydrocarbons in subsurface environments. This in turn can lead to poor decisions which may compromise human or environmental health or can increase costs where remediation is prolonged, misapplied or not well targeted […]
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