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Contaminated Brownfield Sites

: To clear up that point, the then NRA advised looking at water movement, but there was no problem with water on the site, so that does not feed through to the present problem, which lies in the upper metre of soil. It is suspected—there is only anecdotal evidence—that material from the school playing field was mixed with contaminant from the adjoining gasworks site and then respread into the gardens of the houses that were built in the 1990s. The groundwater issue was looked at, but there is no groundwater problem.