Soil working group soil

The AK sees its task in supporting the ongoing amendment of the Soil Protection Ordinance (BBodSchV) by conveying relevant scientific knowledge and practical experience in legislative bodies. Conversely, it also offers assistance and initiates scientific research with questions from higher-level committees. The AK will begin its work with the subject of the future assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the soil , in particular with the current amendment proposal, which is currently very controversial. The substances beyond the 16 EPA-PAHs and PAH transformation products, which have so far not been given much attention, should also be taken into account

Amendment of the Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance (BBodSchV): Invitation to relaunch the "soil" working group

On May 3, 2017, the draft of the Shell Ordinance (MantelV) for substitute building materials and soil protection was approved by the Federal Cabinet. One of the main components of the Shell Ordinance is the comprehensively amended BBodSchV of 1999. With the Shell Ordinance, however, the application is considerably expanded, for example to include the recycling of materials in soils. In the course of adapting the range of methods using valid standards, one of the discussions is whether the term ?soil? should not be replaced in some places by the term ?solid matter? and the scope of the standards expanded. Among others, another aspect is a changed evaluation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the soil man pathway, especially against the background that PAHs represent a group of hundreds of compounds that, in different concentrations, e.g. B. occur depending on the source and with widely varying toxicities in the environment. Various questions are available for specialist discussions. In the course of the new MantelV, which of course still has to be passed by the Bundestag and Bundesrat, numerous specialist discussions are already being held intensively and controversially - and decisions are being made. These took place on 28 June 2017 the office of the German Chemical Society for all members of the Division and other persons (including non-members) of authority, science and practice that are interested in the subject and wanted to bring in your knowledge of the regulation, a first meeting of the working group.

literature

Handbook of soil investigation in cooperation with Wiley-VCH

Articles in the journal "Environmental Science Europe - ESEU"

Article Series: Communications from the division "Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology" of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) Statements and reports of the working groups "Environmental Monitoring" and "Soil Chemistry and Soil Ecology"
Rudel H, Hennecke D, Kordel W and Fischer K
Environmental Sciences Europe 2011, 23:35 (10 November 2011)