Contaminated Sites (WA)

Contaminated Site Web Site

Guidelines for Contaminated Sites

• A person who has a reasonable grounds to know or suspect a site is contaminated may report that to DER.
• An owner or occupier of a site, a person who has contributed to the contamination, an auditor (for the purposes of the Act) are required to report a contamination.
• It has a legal definition but is basically common sense: being the pollution from a source site to an affected site of land or water that can causes harm to humans, the environment or environmental value.
• All reported sites are recorded on the Contaminated Sites Register.
• report not substantiated (RNS);
• possibly contaminated – investigation required (PC–IR); Memorial on land
• not contaminated – unrestricted use (NC–UU);
• contaminated – restricted use (C–RU); Memorial on land
• remediated for restricted use (RRU);
• contaminated – remediation required (C–RR); Memorial on land
• decontaminated (Decon).