Funded by the European Commission Contract n° ERAC-CT-2003-003219

1. Sustainable maNagement of sOil and groundWater under the pressure of soil pollution and soil contaMinAtioN Project partners Integrating Multiple Scale Impact Assessment on Ecosystems for Contaminated Land Management MUSA MUSA is a research project trans-nationally funded under the SNOWMAN umbrella by France and the Netherlands. Aims and objectives • The project partners are: • SETE-MIP SAS, Givors/France • FALW: Vrije Universiteit Amster-dam, Department of Animal Eco-logy, Amsterdam/Netherlands • Project duration: 12 months • Project start: 10.10.2007 By focusing on the impact on ecosystems, MUSA aims at building up an efficient decision support tool integrating Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for contaminated soils manage-ment. MUSA will provide a guideline enabling the use of LCA and ERA at the same time for assessing impacts of organic or inorganic contaminants at different assessment scale in contaminated site management. Overall content and organisation of the tasks • Integration of inorganics and organics in a coherent • assessment • Considering both cations and oxy-anions • Accounting of bioavailability • Reduction of bioavailability with time • Managing the lack of data • Considering different time and space scale • Change in environmental conditions • Intermedia transfer • Variability and biodiversity affected by contaminants • Compatibility between EcoRA and LCA Ageing and Bioavaila- bility Multiple Scale EcoRA Exploring concepts and models • Integration over time • Averaging over space • Integrating short term and long term EcoRA • Integrating local and regional scale • Free ion activity model • Speciation modeling • HSAB concept Selection of management parameters • Selection of the most relevant parameters • Identification of key ecological parameters - Multiple scale decision support tool for contaminated landscape management • Guideline for integrating LCA and EcoRA for contaminated sites • Application of the method to the “Ronde Venen” case study Main output of the project MUSA contact Research strategy Homepage: http://www.bio.vu.nl/do/research/ecotoxicology/musa.htm • Integrating Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) in one tool. Although this tool addresses typically different time and spatial scales and is based on different concepts. • 2.Providing a framework and a guideline for Contaminated sites management. • 3.Providing a coherent assessment for cations, oxy-anions especially addressing the issue of speciation and bioavailability. • 4.Addressing biodiversity endpoint, especially giving a better understanding of the interface between eco-toxicology and ecology in a multiple stressor assessment. Coordinator: Dr. Jerome Payet Phone: +33 47 80 71 07 0 E-Mail: jerome.payet@setemip.com Funded by the European Commission Contract n° ERAC-CT-2003-003219 Contact: SNOWMAN Secretariat, Mr. Arnd Wieland, c/o Umweltbundesamt Dessau, P.O. Box 1406, D-06813 Dessau secretariat@snowman-era.net