Swedish National Guidance Manual on Chlorinated Solvent Remediation
Like other industrialized nations, groundwater supplies beneath many industrial sites in Sweden are contaminated with chlorinated solvents. Compared to countries in North America and other parts of Europe, however, chlorinated solvent impacts in Sweden have not attracted much attention until recently. In 2005, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvardsverket) recognized the need for national guidance on chlorinated solvent remediation. To meet this need, they commissioned a project for the development of a Technical Manual for Screening and Selecting Technologies for Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Soil and Groundwater and selected an international team of experts, consisting of SWECO VIAK (Sweden), Geosyntec Consultants (USA and Canada), and COWI A/S (Denmark) to write the Manual.
