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the critical aspects of sustainable remediation. The SRWG defines sustainable reme-
diation (taking a view originally from SuRF UK 2 ) as “a frame-work in order to
embed balanced decision making in the selection of the strategy to address land
and/or water contamination as an integral part of sustainable land use”.
The SRWG guidance will include a “roadmap” developed by the SRWG which
sets out a stepwise approach to sustainability-based decision making for remedia-
tion, as shown in Fig. 24.3 , and will be illustrated with case studies. The roadmap
can be implemented into any remediation project, across projects and countries. The
common principles in a simple road map are intended to improve the effectiveness
of decision making. This NICOLE guidance will also include a check list of likely
sustainable remediation indicators or metrics to help scope out the assessment, and
a checklist of tools and techniques to help select assessment methods. The road map
concept provides a scalable descriptive guidance about the key stages in achieving

Decisions influencing remediation

Decision “gate”
Available land use
and project
possibilities

Regional
decisions

Policy
improvement
from experience

Decision
“gate” Project
and land use
design

Site / area /
portfolio planning

Design optimisation
if possible / design
refinements for
future projects

Decision “gate”
Remediation
plan

Remedy selection

Improving remedy
selection for
future projects

Optimisation Implementation

Roadmap Part 1:
Sustainability
management

Completion

Fig. 24.3 Sustainable remediation management and assessment NICOLE road map - subject to
revision (version January 2010)

2 www.claire.co.uk/surfuk