Many soil reports include a PFAS user card. This looks like this . But what should and can you do with it? As a homeowner or homebuyer, you can’t and don’t really have to do much with this. The idea behind this card is as follows.
This has to do with if you want to move land from your plot to another location. We call this “earth moving. You cannot, in theory, just dig up soil from one place and deposit it in another. It must first be determined whether the soil you are going to throw on something is no more contaminated with PFAS than the soil you are going to throw it on. This is called the standstill principle. The quality of an existing soil should not deteriorate because you would throw soil on it that is of poorer quality
This complicated map shows the extent to which you are free to move land from A to B.
But as with the other maps that there may be about PFAS in a soil report: here you and no one at all is actually doing anything practical with this.
Need help?
Are you sitting with an issue on a piece of property. For example, do you want to be sure if the soil is clean and have a historical or exploratory soil survey done? Or do you need advice on reading a soil report? Then ask an environmental research firm for a remote opinion or to conduct an exploratory soil survey on site. As a nationwide real estate agency, we have several good environmental maintenance agencies sitting throughout the country that we work with. If you would like to get in touch with one of these consulting companies in your area, please fill out this form and we’ll put you in touch with them (free service from us).
