From 12-16 October 2009, a 5-day Training the Trainer Campaign on Soil and Groundwater Contamination was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Approximately seventy participants from provincial and local environmental authorities, environment monitoring stations, academia and waste management companies took part in the training.

This training workshop was organized through the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Project on contaminated soil and groundwater in China, and was conducted by experts from DHC Consulting GmbH, WESSLING Beratende Ingenieure GmbH and the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück

The workshop provided knowledge in environmental risk assessment, remediation of contaminated sites and brownfield reactivation offered access to information on brownfield reactivation, waste management and procuring environmental protection. During the interactive sessions lively discussions were held between the audience and the experts as to which experiences from Germany with regard to environmental risk assessment, remediation of contaminated sites and brownfield reactivation are applicable and how they can be utilized in Zhejiang.

It was noted that the successful remediation of contaminated sites in Zhejiang poses a challenge to the stakeholders in every aspects such as technical, managerial, regulatory and economical. Similar training will be conducted in Suzhou, Jiangsu and another pilot city in the PPP project from October 2009.