Risk‐Based Assessment of Soil and Groundwater Quality in the Netherlands: Standards and Remediation Urgency

Frank A. Swartjes

Risk Analysis, 1999, vol. 19, issue 6, 1235-1249

Abstract: To assess soil and groundwater quality two generic (i.e. multifunctional) risk‐based standards, Target and Intervention Value, have been developed, in the framework of the Dutch Soil Protection Act. These standards allow soil and groundwater to be classified as clean, slightly contaminated or seriously contaminated. The Target Value is basedon potential risks to ecosysystems, while the Intervention Value is based oqpotential risks to humans and ecosystems. In the case of serious soil contamination the site has, in principle, to be remediated, making it necessary to determine the remediation urgency on the basis of actual (i.e. site‐specific) risks to humans and ecosystems and, besides, actual risks due to contaminant migration.

Date: 1999
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