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Aversa (Caserta) – Arpa Campania continues to monitor air quality following the fire that hit a hydraulic-sanitary material warehouse in Aversa, in Viale Europa, on 19 June. The flames destroyed several cars located in the parking lot of the adjacent condominium and material in fiberglass, PVC, ceramic, metal, placed on wooden pallets, packaged with cardboard or polyethylene film.
“The fixed stations of the Agency’s regional network in Teverola and Aversa (Liceo Cirillo) and the mobile laboratory already present in Teverola – say Arpac – did not show, in the hours immediately following the fire, a trend in the concentrations of the monitored pollutants attributable to the fire”. As regards the value of dioxins and furans, the one detected during the sampling (equal to 1.84 pg/Nmc) is higher than the reference value (0.15 pg/Nmc), even if Arpac underlines that “the dioxin values - usually higher in the first cycle of measurements – tend to decrease quite quickly in the subsequent phases”.
“Values within the norm – continue the agency – also for the fixed control units of the city of Naples affected by a large fire on the Camaldoli hill on the same day”. On 20 June the entire regional monitoring network exceeded the daily concentration limit of PM10 due to the naturalistic phenomenon of an exceptional influx of “Saharan dust”.
