Spill Mapping

Impartial, practical advice on pollution containment is fundamental to all the solutions we provide.

What would happen if you had a spill or fire at your site right now?

Do you know your containment plan works and for how long will it contain?

Spill mapping will answer your problem.

There is a good chance that during a fire all the polluted runoff water will enter the drainage system and cause pollution. This act of pollution is a crime and the damage caused may result in prosecution as well as remediation costs, often known as “The Polluter Pays”.

David Cole, our Technical Director, was invited by the Environment Agency (EA) to sit on the steering committee for the writing of industry guide CIRIA736 Containment systems for the prevention of pollution. The document was commissioned by the EA following the 2005 Buncefield fire; which resulted in a complete loss of product and pollution of drinking water resources. This incident was not in isolation and the EA had to respond to a continuing increase in water pollution from a major disaster such as fires. Any permitted sites including waste sites will have seen the EA’s fire guidance issued in 2016, this also refers to CIRIA c736 in section 17.

During David’s time on the committee, he noted that Buncefield had no evidence or model to show it had a containment system that would actually work. In fact, its pollution control plan was based on assumptions just like many businesses.