Desktop Study – Ealing, London
Southwest Environmental have conducted a desktop study to appraise land contamination at a site in Ealing London, on behalf of a development company.
The site was empty, and currently unused. Histroic searches showed that the site used to be occupied by a cinema.
Although it was thought that there was low risk from contaminated from this use, there were concerns raised over the possible presence of asbestos, and the also the integrity of control measures applied to a sub station in one corner of the site.
A site investigation was therefore recommended, soil sampling in the area adjcent to the electricy sub staion to test for PCBs and soil sampling else where to test for the presence of asbestos.