Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2013C00288:reg:9:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2013C00288
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 12/12)
Character Range: 335319–338801

determining the source and location of any imported fill. Consideration should also be given to the possibility that earthmoving activity may have resulted in redistribution and burial of contamination.

    3.3.18      Interview information
Interviews with past property or business owners and occupiers and employees should be conducted where practicable. The objective of interviews is to confirm information collected in the desktop study and to gain additional relevant site information (for example, source of drinking water, presence of wells on-site, date of connection to sewer, history of spills and leaks, arrangements for liquid and solid waste disposal etc.). Owners and occupants of neighbouring properties may also be able to provide useful information.

    3.3.19      Sources of information
A log of all sources consulted for site history information should be kept so that the completeness and reliability of the information collected, and hence confidence in the desktop study results, may be assured. Personal recollections and anecdotal records should be cross-checked where possible and any limitations of the information noted. This information should be clearly documented in the PSI report.

Table 1. An example of a site chronology table where the gaps in the data and inadequacies of information are readily identified

Date                    Owner                  Occupant                              Industry                                          Process equipment plant                                Chemicals inputs                       Buildings, structures and services            Soil cover vegetation paved areas                Fill and excavation  Comments
                                                                                     or land use                                                                                              by-products waste
1993 (to Mar)           PD Nominees            PD Nominees                           Springwater bottling                              Confidential
1986 (from Sept)        PD Nominees            PD Nominees                           Vinegar bottling                                                                                         Acetic Acid                            20 x 30 m Warehouse built Nov 1986            Site completely covered by a concrete slab                            Soil logs available from the warehouse construction
1979 (11 Jun)           PD Nominees            R McLaren                             Motor vehicle repair and car park                                                                        Oils                                   No buildings on site unfenced                 Half of site covered by 150 mm of coarse gravel  Coarse gravel …      Surface oil waste contamination
                                                                                                                                                                                              solvents lubricants
1979 (10 Jun)           F Bath                 F Bath                                Electrical workshop                                                                                      Solders, capacitors, mercury switches  Workshop destroyed in fire                                                                                          Burning building associated with colourful flames

1978 (5 Nov)
1979 (5 Nov) 1972       R Bath