Soil structure degradation evaluation for environmental legislation (STRUDEL)

• Research unit: FOEN
• Project number: ExSt.2021.1240

Key words (German)

Boden, Studien

Key words (English)

Soil, Studies

Key words (French)

Sols, Études

Key words (Italian)

Suolo, Studi

Short description (English)

Soil structure degradation is one of the major environmental threats. In Switzerland, the ordinance of impact on soils OIS (OIS, 2016) is the legislative basis for soil protection. Limit values (guide, trigger and clean-up values) for chemical pollution are currently available. But soil physical protection is scarce and no limit values exist for diagnosing soil structure quality, in the frame of compaction threats for example. The limit values of the OIS originally constructed for chemical pollution would need a slight adaptation to soil physical protection where no direct toxicity is involved. Providing these limit values for soil physical protection and the associated methodology was the main aim objective of the project "Soil structure degradation evaluation for environmental legislation" (STRUDEL).

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Contractor (English)

Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève hepia, Genève; Agroscope, Reckenholz

Charged budget (English)

BAFU

Legal basis (English)

Art. 57 Abs. 1 RVOG | Art. 57 al. 1 LOGA. | Art. 57 cpv. 1 LOGA

Copyright (English)

Copyright, Bundesbehörden der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft | Droits d'auteur: autorités de la Confédération suisse | Diritti d'autore: autorità della Confederazione Svizzera | Dretgs d'autur: autoritads da la Confederaziun svizra | Copyright, Swiss federal authorities

Information (English)

BAFU, Abteilung Boden und Biotechnologie, 3003 Bern