STUDY ON TREATING LAND CONTAMINATION AND REDEVELOPING BROWNFIELDS IN GERMANY

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine and clarify the procedures of soil cleanups and redevelopment process by undertaking case study of former factory and land fill sites in Germany. It also tries to find the effect and arising difficulties of newly introduced Federal Soil Protection Act 1998. Investigation methods used are interviews and site visits, and eighteen cases have been investigated. he results showed that due to the introduction of new law, it enabled to undertake investigation and cleanups at the national level, which leads to create the list of all suspected contaminated sites.