Dear All,
I an addition to congratulating Paul on having brought this standard to fruition, just to say that ISO 18504 will become a British Standard. It usually takes BSI a few weeks to add the necessary introductory information and BS cover.
Regards,
Mike
Mike Smith
M A Smith Environmental Consultancy
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Subject: ISO 18504:2017 on Sustainable remediation
The ISO standard on sustainable remediation (ISO 18504:2017 Soil quality -- Sustainable remediation) has been published - for details please see:
https://www.iso.org/standard/62688.html
I had the privilege of chairing the ISO working group that drafted this document and would like to encourage those in the sector interested in ensuring their remediation projects merit the term 'sustainable remediation' to use this new standard to assess their project's claim. More on this later...
I would at this time like to thanks the members of the steering group for their efforts over the last few years and also members of BSI's committee on soil quality for their support in getting this initiative underway. The main contributors from the UK were Paul Bardos, Jonathan Smith and Mike Smith. Members from Australia, Japan, Italy and the Netherlands were also key contributors. Our work was only possible because of DIN's Gabriele Goetsche's sterling efforts in keeping our work compliant with the ISO way of doing things.
ISO 18504:2017 provides procedures on sustainable remediation. In particular, it provides:
- standard methodology, terminology and information about the key components and aspects of sustainable remediation assessment;
- informative advice on the assessment of the relative sustainability of alternative remediation strategies.
ISO 18504:2017 is intended to inform practitioners about contemporary understanding of sustainable remediation. It is intended to inform consideration of the concept of sustainable remediation in a local legal, policy, socio-economic and environmental context.
The scope of ISO 18504:2017 is restricted to sustainable remediation - that is demonstrably breaking the source-pathway-receptor linkages - in a manner that has been shown on a site-specific basis under a specific legal context to be sustainable.
Paul Nathanail
Chair, ISO TC190 SC7 Working Group 12
Professor of Engineering Geology
Head, Environment and Society Research Group
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