Abstract
Long term monitoring of contaminated land reclamation is important
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To give advance warning of any failure or the need for remedial action and
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To provide the data which can be used to evaluate earlier designs and allow cheaper and more robust solutions to be proposed in the future.
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Cairney, T. (1987). Long-term monitoring of reclaimed sites. In: Cairney, T. (eds) Reclaiming Contaminated Land. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6504-4_7
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