The New South Wales Government EPA is overseeing the remediation of dioxin contaminated sediment and residential land at Homebush Bay near the site of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

On land, the top metre must have no more than 90 parts per trillion of dioxin. This is the level that the remediator submitted was necessary to protect the health of children (because of their relative small body weight)

In the bay, areas with significant dioxin contamination at a depth of up to 1.5 feet are being excavated and treated to reduce the bay wide average dioxin contamination to almost 1 part per billion. The excavated material will be replaced with clean material.

The community has generally accepted use of direct thermal desorption and incineration on the basis of it also having wet scrubbers and rapid quench to prevent dioxin formation above the stack, and with cost savings being applied to do more remediation in the bay, although they preferred indirect thermal desorption and base catelysed dechlorination/destruction.

For more details see:
http://esvc000080.wic019u.server-web.com //
http://www.rhodesnsw.org
http://www.rhodesremediation.nsw.gov.au/index.html