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9.30 a.m. Welcome address

Constantin Ciupagea, Head of the Land Resources Unit, JRC, European Commission

9.45 a.m. What are the drivers for remediation in European countries?

Ana Paya Perez, Joint Research Centre JRC, European Commission

Presentations

Regulatory, current remediation financing and management methods in Europe

Moderators: Ana Paya Perez, Joint Research Centre JRC, European Commission

Laura D’Aprile, Italian Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea (Italy)

10.00 a.m. Soil remediation market in Spain

Antonio Callaba De Roa, Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (Spain)

10.15 a.m. Overview on Italian remediation market by RECONnet, the Italian network on the management and remediation of contaminated sites

Renato Baciocchi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rete Nazionale sulla gestione e la Bonifica dei Siti Contaminati RECONnet (Italy)

10.30 a.m. The Danish market & setup for contaminated soil services

Christian Andersen, Danish Soil Partnership (Denmark)

10.45 a.m. Webtool "innovative remediation techniques" the Brussels-capital Region experience

Bernard Lemaire, Bruxelles Environnement IBGE, Leefmilieu Brussel BIM (Brussels)

11.00 a.m. Questions from the audience and conclusions by the moderators

11.20 a.m. Break

Case studies/stories and best practices in Europe, presented by public authorities

Moderators: Ana Paya Perez, Joint Research Centre JRC, European Commission

Laura D’Aprile, Italian Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea (Italy)

11.30 a.m. Management of contaminated sites due to former soviet army activities in Slovakia and Mongolia

Katarína Paluchova, Slovak Environment Agency SEA (Slovakia)

11.45 a.m. The proposal of measures recultivation of landfills Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vesna Tunguz, University of East Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

12.00 a.m. Hydraulic conductivity investigations of potential use of Zeolitic Rock in Central Java, Indonesia as a barrier contaminant material

Wawan Budianta, Dept. of Geological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)

12.15 a.m. Questions from the audience and conclusions by the moderators

12.30 a.m. Break and visit to the exhibition

Innovative remediation technologies available in Europe, presented by enterprises

Moderator: Mike Summersgill, Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments - News CLAIRE (United Kingdom)

1.45 p.m. Reduction, Adsorption and Precipitation of Heavy Metals by Elemental Iron, Iron Sulfides and Related Reactive Minerals

Michael Mueller, PeroxyChem Environmental Solutions (Austria)

2.00 p.m. Groundwater remediation at a pharmaceutical site by pure oxygen barrier with ground bio2® system

Piero Mori, ERM Italia (Italy)

2.15 p.m. Recovery of LNAPL from a hillside moraine and boulder field at a historic Multi Million Litre Fuel Spill from an explosion in a rock storage facility

Gareth Leonard, REGENESIS Ltd UK (Sweden)

2.30 p.m. Full-scale remediation of chlorinated solvents by injection of nano-scale zero valent iron produced on site

Tamás László, Golder Associates (Hungary)

2.45 p.m. Phytoremediation as a sustainable approach for groundwater contaminated with 1,4-dioxane

Frank Volkering, Tauw (the Netherlands)

3.00 p.m. Combined biotic and abiotic treatment of soil and groundwater in reductive and oxidative pathways for more sustainable remediation

Lorenzo Sacchetti, Carus Europe (Spain)

3.15 p.m. Questions from the audience and conclusions by the moderators

3.35 p.m Break

International presentations

Chair: Christiane Wermeille, Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation UVEK (Swiss)

Dietmar Müller Grabherr, Environment Agency Austria

3.45 p.m. Containing Arsenic Trioxide Dust Underground using a Freeze Method at Giant Mine

Craig Wells, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Government of Canada

4.00 p.m. Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals to the Workers and Metropolitan Residents of Tehran, via Sewage Sludge Amended Soil and Vegetables

Ali Mehmandoost Kotlar, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil)

4.15 p.m. Presentation on Obsolete Pesticide Remainders in Azerbaijan Republic

Najiba Afandiyeva, Ministry of emergency situations of Aerbaijan Republic

4.30 p.m. Round table - Decision Drivers, Obstacles and Solutions for improving the reuse of contaminated land and soils as part of sustainable remediation

Moderator: Dietmar Müller Grabherr, Environment Agency Austria

Setting the Scene

4.30 p.m. Decision making processes and innovative technologies as practical solutions for sustainable remediation

Claudio Albano, CH2MHILL (United States)

4.45 p.m Remediation technologies benchmark: Italian market, technologies and site rehabilitation

Manuel Marangon, Syndial (Italy)

Cecilia Razzetti, MWH

5.00 p.m. Round table

Participants:

Claudio Albano, CH2MHILL (United States)

Christian Andersen, Danish Soil Partnership (Denmark)

Renato Baciocchi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rete Nazionale sulla gestione e la Bonifica dei Siti Contaminati RECONnet (Italy)

Antonio Callaba De Roa, Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (Spain)

Eugen Martac, Fugro Consult GmbH, Department In Situ Geotechnologies (Germany)

Antonella Vecchio, ISPRA (Italy)

6.00 p.m. Conclusion

Questions from the audience and conclusions by the moderators

Conclusion of the conference by RemTech Europe Scientific Committee