RA for contaminated sites in France:

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• RA for contaminated sites in France
• Experience of a "free tool box"
• 03.02.2005, Ispra
• B. Hazebrouck - Waste and contaminated sites Unit
• benoit.hazebrouck_at_ineris.fr

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Introduction The French "experiment"

• RA in France for contaminated sites
• No appliable reference values for soil quality ?
  many RA
• No reference tools for RA
• Import of a limited set of tools (US, NL)
• ? de facto a "free tool box"
• A central observation
• INERIS third-expertise (15 / year), training of
  all actors (15 d/year), own studies, RD, study
  of the tools, ...

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"Free tool box", France what we see

• All "state of the art"

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"Free tool box", France how it "works"

• Knowledge of the tools
• Huge work, not shared, not available
• No time ? Knowledge low, superficial, except
  0-1-5 persons/tool
• Choice of the tools (for a given situation)
• Person or company history, software bought
• Taste, feeling
• "Marketing" (possibility) towards less strict
  results?
• Use of the tools
• Mistakes (equations, parametrisation, ),
  unexplainable phenomena (JE)
• ? de facto still blackbox (validity,
  uncertainties,)
• ? Incoherences, costs, low credibility,
  suspicion?, anxiousness

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Suggestions

• Decision how much conventional, how much
  predictive
• "Not so free" tool box or flexible reference
  differences should be justifiable, "no" choice
  open
• Documentation of tool box full, free,
  "unavoidable"
• 1st common comprehensive critical review of
  available tools
• Reminding
• RA ? minimum exigence
• Other types of tools BATNEC, ...