Das Projekt "Integriertes Management kontaminierter Standorte" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Bezirksregierung Köln durchgeführt. Project Summary: The COSIMA consortium comprises five cities: Cologne (DE), Cork (IE), Bologna (IT), Amsterdam (NL) and Katowice (PL). In addition three software development firms are involved: ESBI, straessle, and ESRI Italia. This group will develop a computerised integrated Contaminated Sites Management Support System (CSMSS) to assist experts in planning, environment and other fields in remediation, assessing, registering and reinstating sites which may have been contaminated through previous use, for example, for industrial or landfill purposes. Sites must be investigated to assess the nature and extent of contamination and the effort and resources required to make them safe and suitable for further use. COSIMA will agree a common approach for the investigation, analysis and reinstatement of contaminated sites, and will develop and implement an appropriate support and analysis system on the basis of three different Geographic Information Systems (GIS): ArcInfo, Intergraph and GRADIS-GIS. Thy system will hold graphics for maps, photographs, etc, and text on procedures for testing and analysis, methods of remediation, results obtained and cross-references to standards for investigation, clean-up and reuse of sites. It will assist users by analysing sites and suggesting methods and levels of reinstatement, linking into existing computer record and analysis facilities in the cities. Common interfaces, data handling methods, reports and graphic presentation will make CSMSS appear and function the same in all participating cities. The final system will be a standardised, userfriendly, map-based tool to support contaminated sites management. It will promote economic, environmentally sound development of cities through comprehensive and speedy analysis and processing of sites, and, being standardised, it will facilitate cooperation and development Europe-wide.