Director of Industrial Sewage, Contaminated Soils and Fuels at the Ministry of Environmental Protection Avi Haim: “The firm’s new database is published as part of our focus on increasing the transparency of environmental information in Israel. The scope of the sites in the database. “
The Ministry of Environmental Protection’s Industrial Sewage, Contaminated Soils and Fuels Division collects information on thousands of sites suspected of soil contamination, from various information sources, and works to make the information accessible to the Policy Division and in collaboration with professionals from various ministries, including Freedom of Information, Information Systems and GIS. Legal and DHV Company. The system now has more than 2,200 sites, and more sites continue to be absorbed. More than 300 sites are in the process of being rehabilitated, more than 700 sites have completed an investigation and rehabilitation process and the rest of the sites are in the process of being investigated. At 1,100 sites, there has been or is activity from the transportation industry, including garages and gas stations; At about 600 sites there was or is industrial activity; And at the rest of the sites there was agricultural, security activity or that touched the various waste sites. More than 1,900 sites are located in an area with high hydrological sensitivity, and about 2,000 are in localities. Gaseous gases have been detected at more than 1,400 sites. The database does not include all the data on soil contamination in Israel, but reflects to the public the status of the existing data in the office as of the date of publication and as of the date on which the soil tests were performed.
The database is intended for a wide audience of users, including buyers and interested in real estate, researchers, environmental organizations, business and financial entities and various entities from the public sector, including government ministries, local government and planning institutions. It will be noted that the classification of the sites in the information map is divided into three administrative stages: 1) sites where soil contamination is suspected, 2) sites with known soil contamination, 3) sites that have been rehabilitated or inspected and not In addition, the system also contains information on soil gases and information on other branches of activity at those sites.
Want to know if there is soil contamination in your area? Want to know which sites have been rehabilitated from pollution in the area near you?