The EPF and polluted soils

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Alongside the Polluted Sites and Soils Department's activity, the Etablissement Public Foncier's technical and land teams built upon the Department's experience and proposed to the state and the region experimental interventions that combined soil pollution cleanup with the redevelopment of industrial brownfields with high development stakes.

The Etablissement thus intervened in 2004 on the Knox brownfield in Escaudain to treat sediments polluted with polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) discovered in 2001 and 2004 during the development works of the Delta 3 multimodal platform. In 2009, it treated the PCUK site in Wattrelos-Leers which had been polluted with chrome 6 from 2005 to 2009.

The development of this competence led the EPF's Board of Governors to integrate these kinds of works in the standard funding of site requalification by the EPF in its Pluriannual Intervention Programme for 2007-2013.

To complement this operational activity, the EPF's polluted soils department collaborated with the Ademe and the Ministry of Environment to create the first guide on polluted soils, published in 2006.

This cooperation was continued and led to the publication in 2009 of an "interactive methodological guide to the successful urban development of polluted sites".