Atlantic Risk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA or "Rebecca") is a process that helps make the clean up of contaminated properties in Atlantic Canada more consistent and cost-effective.

This web site provides a library of general and technical information about Atlantic RBCA, such as newsletters, brochures and Provincial guidelines.

Short documents and summaries can be read on-screen. Longer documents can be downloaded in PDF format to view on-screen or printed for distribution.

For more information on viewing or downloading documents, go to Using this Site.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES
  • Coming in THE FALL, 2010

  • The RBCA toolkit will be updated as Version 3.
    • RBCA Version 3 includes four land uses:  Agricultural, Residential, Commercial and Industrial.
    • Several model defaults have been updated to improve harmonization with CCME Canada Wide Standards.
    • RBCA Version 3 allows use of an adjustment factor to account for observed discrepancies between the calculated and observed soil gas concentrations.  This change is not built into the model; rather, the factor will be added after the RBSLs/PSSLs/SSTLs are calculated.
    • RBCA Version 3 is compatible with Excel XP (2002), 2003 and 2007.
    • Updated on-line training for RBCA Version 3 software is available.

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Updated July 2010