Abstract
Soil Contamination Countermeasures Act was enacted in 2002, and it was revised greatly in 2009. This revised action was caused by several problems such as an increase of the soil contamination not based on this Act, necessity of reasonable countermeasures for each site and necessity of proper processing of soil which carried from sites. It is same as before the revised Act, that the soil contamination investigation is being executed in the specialty by the research agency that the country specified. In the future, thus, geological engineer's role would increase. However, the soil contamination can discover hardly at externals, and it is difficult to decide the source and region of soil contamination. Simultaneously, there is social role and problem for the protection of person's health. For solution of these problems at recent, geological engineer does not achieve role enough, necessarily.
In this paper, based upon recent social situation for soil/groundwater pollution, the authors take a general view of several past cases, and express our opinion about geological engineer's social roles and technical problems in the future.
