Contamination of Horticultural Land in Canterbury - A Scoping Study - U06/80

Environment Canterbury (ECan) has a statutory duty to identify and monitor contaminated land. Horticultural activity is listed on the Ministry for the Environment’s Hazardous Activities and Industries List (HAIL), and is therefore considered to be an activity with a potential to contaminate land. This report, prepared by Pattle Delamore Partners Limited (PDP), is intended to help ECan in scoping to what extent horticultural use may have contaminated land in Canterbury. It does this by providing a broad overview of current and historic horticultural use in Canterbury and, by drawing on local information and studies from elsewhere in New Zealand, provides guidance on the likely chemicals of concern and the possible concentrations within soil of these chemicals.