TERRANOVA Controlled Environment Biopiling for Contaminated Land Treatment
Country: EU Projects
Start Date:           Duration: 36 months         Project Type: RTD
Contract Number: EVK1-CT-1999-00015
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Contaminated land-->policy and regulatory
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Ex situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->In situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Recycling/reuse
Project objectives: 
Contaminated land treatment is fundamentally a low technology business involving bulldozers and diggers. Because of this an under lying objective is to provide 
a low technology, robust process, with robust on line monitoring and control, which can be used by unsophisticated SME's. TerraNova is very much about employment, 
the project is about transferring the technology through a licensing process across the Europe so that the huge market can be exploited by those SME's. The whole 
concept of TerraNova is to cleanup contaminated soil in a closed safe fashion and do it quickly and efficiently. It will therefore help quickly to reduce human 
exposure to harmful chemicals and pollutant and improve the quality of life and health for European citizens.
Project Summary: 
The proposal for an EU Action Programme for Integrated Groundwater Protection and Management (COM (96) 315 final), adopted by the Commission in August 1996, 
and the proposal for a Water Framework Directive (COM (97) 49 final) issued in February 1997, which aim to protect groundwater, inland surface waters, estuaries, 
and coastal waters and groundwater, will form the framework for the whole of water policy. The Water Framework Directive would require Member States to prepare 
a programme of measures to attain 'good' surface water and ground water status by the end of 2010. There is a huge amount of contaminated land across Europe. Water 
transfer through these sites can leach contaminants into the groundwater. The TerraNova project will develop a rapid bioremediation process, which will 
enable SME's to make a real contribution to cleaning up that contamination.
Achieved Objectives: 
The technology development of this project was not completed.  However, a report was produced:   
Summary Report on Technical and Legal Barriers for the Introduction of Ex-Situ Biological Soil Treatment Excavated Contaminated Soil in the EU Member States
Product Descriptions:
Additional Information:
Project Resources:

Summary Report on Technical and Legal Barriers for the Introduction of Ex-Situ Biological Soil Treatment in the EU Member States

Summary Report on Technical and Legal Barriers for the Introduction of Ex-Situ Biological Soil Treatment Excavated Contaminated Soil in the EU Member States
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Funding Programme(s): 
EC Framework Programme 5
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Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Dr Stefan Gödeke  Who does what?  09/03/2005 11:00:00
Updated by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  03/10/2006 15:12:00