Environmental Trends 2007

Contaminants

Clean-Up of Contaminated Sites in B.C.

Most known contaminated sites on the B.C. registry have been or are in the process of being cleaned up.

Source: B.C. Ministry of Environment, Contaminated Sites Registry 2007

• Photo credit: Ministry of Agriculture and Lands

  There is no way to know how many unregistered contaminated sites exist in the province, but 41 per cent of the over 6800 known sites in the Ministry of Environment Site Registry have been remediated (cleaned-up).

• Another 30 per cent of sites are actively in the process of meeting cleanup requirements under the B.C. Environmental Management Act.

• There are also about 2100 sites in the federal contaminated sites inventory, of which over 650 have been or are in the process of being cleaned-up.

For detailed information, including graph data, see In-Depth Report [pdf].

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