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Sirius Experts Tackle Polluting Site on Tyne
The Sirius Group has secured a major contract with Newcastle City Council to carry out a further – and hopefully final – phase of investigation and remediation design at the former St. Anthony’s tar works site in the
The historic tar works operated from the 1920s until closure in the early 1980s, leaving a legacy of pollution behind. Two phases of reclamation and decontamination in 1984 and 1998-9 were partially successful but residual pollutants continued to seep into the
The former industrial area has been successfully reclaimed for recreational use and is an otherwise pleasant green riverbank popular with local pedestrians, dog walkers and joggers. However, the smell of and sight of tarry residues rising from the mud flats at low tide is a constant reminder of its former heavy industrial use.
Sirius’ commission is to fully delineate the residual contamination, conduct detailed groundwater analysis and hydrocarbon characterisation to establish the three-dimensional contaminant profile in both soils and groundwater within this complex, tidally dynamic groundwater flow regime. Ecological and river sediment studies are also being undertaken in-house which will feed into the final remediation design, along with extensive stakeholder consultations for a site which has attained some notoriety amongst the development and regulatory community in the region.
Our investigation works, which commenced Autumn 2009, will conclude with a detailed remediation design and specification to support a DEFRA grant application and planning application in 2010.
For further information on our works, contact Grant Richardson on 0191 378 9972 or grant.richardson@thesiriusgroup.com
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