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 Save Our Suburbs Homepage (An umbrella organisation for various urban campaigns, mainly anti-consolidation)

New Links

Right click links that end in ".pdf" ans select "Save.." from the popup menu to save pdf files to your local computer for later use.

Chemical scorecard site of Environmental Defence, Inc This site lets you see the relative toxicity and a whole range of other information on individual chemicals.
http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/index.tcl  

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticides Database:   This site lets you see the a whole range of other information on individual pesticides:
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35769 

Standards

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 Australian Investigation Levels for Soil and Groundwater in the Assessment of site contamination. Part of the National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure 1999 
 http://www.nepc.gov.au/pdf/cs_01_inv_levels.pdf 

 The NSW EPA has a Contaminated Land Management Page
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/clm/  
and it has a link to the NSW Contaminated Land Management Act.

Remediation of contaminated land in NSW is governed by SEP 55 
 http://www.duap.nsw.gov.au/assessingdev/pdf/sepp55_remediatio.pdf 

 DUAP / EPA have a guide to SEPP 55
http://www.duap.nsw.gov.au/assessingdev/pdf/gu_contam.pdf 

 The Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines are discussed at
http://www2.ec.gc.ca/ceqg-rcqe/about.htm and in particular the documents
such as http://www2.ec.gc.ca/ceqg-rcqe/Soil.pdf which can be accessed from
the bottom of http://www2.ec.gc.ca/ceqg-rcqe/soil.htm 

 The Dutch Intervention Levels which are available from
http://www.zeroenvironment.co.uk/dutch.htm and which I understand are
commonly applied in the UK as well as Holland.

 The US ATSDR Minimum Risk levels available from
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/mrls.html and particularly an equivalent of their
document on Dioxin and Dioxin-Like Compounds in Soil, Part 1: available from
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/dioxindt.html 

 International Experience and Expertise in Registration Investigation, Assessment, and Clean-Up of Contaminated Military Sites - 21 countries compared
http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/altlast/web1/berichte/mooreeng/dmeng.htm 

Government

 NSW Government - Department of Urban Affairs and Planning  
 NSW Government - Environment Protection Agency  
 NSW Government - Roads and Traffic Authority  
 NSW Government - State Rail authority
 NSW Government - Waterways - Homebush

Olympic Coordination Authority:
    OCA's Environment and Ecology pages
http://202.139.230.209/oca/html/environment.stm including the EPA licence
for some of the treatment processes of OCA, reports of monitoring and other
issues, Homberg (under Ecology > Community > consultation. There are
numerous public reports on this site.

 Sydney Water  http://www.sydneywater.com.au 

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Analyses of pollution levels including sewerage and other contaminants including metals. Basically Homebush Bay and the upper reaches of the Parramatta River are a known disaster area and the sewerage system and stormwater systems are already subject to common failures of environmental standards.

National Environment Protection Council 

US EPA and other Remediation pages
US Treatment Technologies Screening Matrix
http://www.frtr.gov/matrix2/section3/table3_2.html
US EPA Reach it http://www.epareachit.org/index3.html
US Hazardous Waste Clean Up information http://clu-in.org/

Bird Groups

Birds Australia 
Southern NSW and ACT Group of Birds Australia (SNAG) 
Bird Life International

Homebush Bay-Rhodes 

http://www.greenpeace.org.au/info/archives/olympics/reports/200_days/index.html 

Total Environment Centre  

Dioxins

 Green Games Watch Pages 

The Olympic Catchment - Toxics, Pollution,

Olympic Catchment - Pollution and Social Profile 

Ecologically Sustainable Development - NSW Environment - The Olympic Catchment - 16 July

Air and Water Pollution, Contaminated sites, The Brick Pit, Haslams Creek North, Haslams Creek south, Newington, State Sport Centre, Bicentennial Park, Wilson Park, Former union Carbide Site, Former Allied Feeds Site, ICI (Orica) Sites, Homebush Bay, Conservation Areas, Eucalypt Forest, Casuarina Forest, Saltmarsh, Mangroves, Ongoing Issues, Millenium Park and Nature Reserve,Pollution in the Olympic Catchment.

Ecologically Sustainable Development - NSW Environment - Environmental and Social Profile - 13 April 1998

Pollution Sources Numerous, Socio Economic Status Low, Mortality and Health worse than Sydney, Urban Redevelopment in a Polluted Catchment, Action required to reflect a green games.

Ecologically Sustainable Development - NSW Environment - Green Gains - 16 July

Remediation standards at Olympics, Need for improved catchment management. Protocols and reporting and compliance failures at the Olympics remediation sites. OCA management issued false denial on Dioxin contamination. Commitment to annual environmental reports for public release.

Green Games Watch 2000 Media Release: Ecologically Sustainable Development - N

Waste water to potable, sewerage recycling, Stormwater management, risks to mortality from higher air pollution. Undergrounding powerlines (ed.and phone/cable), beautifying foreshores. Remediation and marine life. Marine life contaminated above safe levels. Amcord standards of residential development. Description of environmental features of the Olympic village, including energy conservation, water conservation and quality, construction standards, community workshops.

Green Games Watch 2000 Media Release: Ecologically Sustainable Development - N

Report on compliance. Reviewed by Professor of Environmental Studies at Macquarie University, Alistair Gilmour, Dioxin review report, need to invite green groups to develop an ongoing strategy for management of dioxin contaminated sites.

Australian Environment Sites

GreenPeace  http://www.greenpeace.org.au/ 

Other Pages 

GreenPeace http://www.greenpeace.org/ 
Friends of the Earth UK Friends of the Earth 
Contaminated Land in the UK http://www.contaminatedland.co.uk/  
Environmental News Network http://www.enn.com/  
Amazing Environmental Organisation Directory http://www.webdirectory.com/    

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Tables on cost of remediation, methods of remediation.

 

1. Amazing Environmental Organization Directory
   URL:- http://www.webdirectory.com
   
2. Central European Environmental Data Requisition Facility (CEDAR)
   URL:- http://pan.cedar.univie.ac.at/
3. Environment Agency
   URL:- http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk
4. Environment Canada
   URL:- http://www.doe.ca/envhome.html
5. The EnviroWeb
   URL:- http://envirolink.org/
6. European Environmental Agency
   URL:- http://www.eea.dk
7. Friends of the Earth
   URL:- http://www.foe.co.uk
8. Greenpeace
   URL:- http://www.greenpeace.org
9. International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA)
   URL:- http://www.isea.rutgers.edu/isea/isea.html
10. Journal of Ecotoxicology
    URL:- http://www.bdt.org.br/bdt/english
11. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
    URL:- http://www.esdim.noaa.gov
12. National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
    URL:- http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis/ntishome.html
13. National Toxicology Program (NTP)
    URL:- http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov
14. Routenet's Environmental Reference Database
    URL:- http://www.csa.com/routenet/
15. The Toxicology News Group
    URL:- http://www.bio.net
16. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    URL:- http://www.epa.gov/epahome/text.htm
17. Yahoo's Index of Environmental Web Sites
    URL:- http://www.yahoo.com/Environment_and_Nature

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