Scientists will investigate whether the flooding has contaminated land with harmful metals from abandoned mines.
Mr Prescott hit back at Tory claims he was using "contaminated land" to build cheap starter homes on.
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Though it spent billions on Chernobyl, it simply abandoned vast amounts of contaminated land making them into exclusions zones.
The MoD agreement to the detailed investigation avoided the Fife beach becoming the first in the UK to be designated radioactive contaminated land.
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Work has already begun to clean contaminated land east of the motorway in preparation for the construction of new homes and commercial units.
Congress is due to debate the reauthorisation of two bits of green legislation, the Endangered Species Act and Superfund, which deals with contaminated land.
For example, should companies be forced to pay for the clean-up of contaminated land, even though they polluted the land long before the relevant environmental regulations were in place?
The Ministry of Defence has been given a deadline of next May to come up with a workable plan to clean up the beach and prevent it becoming the first in the UK to be designated radioactive contaminated land.
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One Osaka project, to build a Universal Studios theme park, has been dogged by allegations that the city has been helping one of its private-sector partners, Sumitomo Metal Industries, to avoid the cost of cleaning up the contaminated land on which the park is to be built.
The Japanese researchers say they have found no evidence that they contaminated the land or affected the health of local people.
Residents in Portsmouth say fumes from contaminated industrial waste land in the city are making them ill.
But, it has now reportedly decided it is not economically viable to build on the site because the land is contaminated.
Surrounding land was contaminated, and it will take years to recover.
The Systems Biology Knowledgebase or KBase will allow scientists to predict the effect of microbes on their communities and if they can clean-up contaminated environments or sequester carbon on land, for example.
Ouseburn Farm, formerly known as Byker Farm, was forced to close in 2002 when its land was found to be contaminated by the old Victorian lead works it is built on.
If the onerous rules on converting farmland to other uses were waived in Tohoku, land (often wrongly) suspected of being contaminated from the nuclear leak could be turned into fields of money-spinning solar panels.
For some agricultural land, we see the almost unbelievable spectacle of power shovels removing a layer of contaminated topsoil to be stored for 40 years.
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