Unternavigation

The Sins of Yesterday

How are contaminated sites to be handled? The remediation of the "sins of yesterday", is not an exact science. Rather it is an after-the-fact corrective fraught with many imponderables and surprises.

Introduction

How are contaminated sites to be handled? The remediation of the "sins of yesterday", is not an exact science. Rather it is an after-the-fact corrective fraught with many imponderables and surprises.

The issue of contaminated sites has gained steadily in importance in Switzerland. The Contaminated Site Ordinance (CSO), in force as of 1 October 1998, has erected the necessary legal security to deal with this undesireable inheritence and it contains regulations for the uniform management of contaminated sites throughout the whole of Switzerland.