Related themes: Soil and Groundwater
Period: January 2020 - december 2021
Client: European Commission
Involved Tauw consultants:
Under the name 'HCH in the EU', the European Commission has commissioned the consortium with Tauw as lead consultant to identify the contaminated sites with HCH in the EU Member States and to provide a full roadmap for sustainable management of six selected HCH contaminated sites.
HCH (Lindane) was produced between 1945 and 2000 and used as an insecticide and against parasites in both veterinary and human applications. Eight to twelve tons of waste isomers were produced for every ton of lindane. We now know that these are Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and are harmful to humans or the environment and resulted in November 2006 to ban the use of Lindane in 52 countries.
The consortium consists of Tauw, CDM Smith Europe GmbH from Germany and Sociedad Aragonesa de Gestión Agroambiental (SARGA) S.L.U from Spain. Because the project consists of many different (international) parties and locations, good cooperation and sharing of information is essential. To facilitate this, the project uses tailor-made digital environments including a Geographic Information Model (GIM) to collect, organise, store, interpret, assess and report all inventory data from the different locations. The GIM Viewer is available to the project team members, the European Commission, stakeholders and will be public to other stakeholder and interested.
This project will soon have two results:
HCH in EU webinar + break-out session - 26 November - 10am CET
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HCH in EU webinar + break-out session - 1 December - 2pm CET
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HCH in EU webinar + break-out session - January 2021 (Cancelled)
Cancelled due to two successful webinars and available recording (watch below)
August 10th, 2020
Milestone: First Draft Country Specific List (CSL) submitted
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January 28th, 2021
Background article (part 1): HCH in EU - History and usage of HCH
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