Working towards obtaining the soil and groundwater quality declaration
Spain
Since 2013, the sustainable soil management business line of the Environment area has been working on various processes to obtain the Soil Quality Declaration for a site that underwent intense industrial activity (metallurgy and energy) for over a century.
The projects carried out have required IDOM’s work in the following areas:
- Waste inventories and supervision of waste management. This work is based on the preparation of a report detailing the accounting and classification of waste stored in a disused building. Subsequently, when the waste is managed, it is monitored and controlled to ensure the correct management of the items inventoried.
- Preparation of waste characterisation sheets. Sampling and analysis of materials for subsequent characterisation.
- Demolition project. The aim of the project is to define the scope of the work associated with selective demolition. The selective demolition project aims to define the set of operations carried out in a gradual and coordinated manner to promote the maximum use of the materials that constitute demolition waste, thus minimising the fraction sent to landfill.
- Preliminary and exploratory investigation of soil quality. The main objective of the exploratory investigation was to check whether there are concentrations of pollutants at the site that could mean that the soil and associated groundwater are altered or contaminated.
The property is currently in the process of obtaining the necessary licences from the authorities to demolish practically all of the existing buildings.
