The results of the first analyses carried out by ARPA Campania to evaluate the environmental effects of the fire which broke out in a warehouse located in Via delle Repubbliche Marinare in the eastern outskirts of Naples during the night between 26 and 27 August highlight concentrations of dioxins and other pollutants. Naples.
The results available today are related to the first sampling carried out over a 24-hour period on 27-28 August, during which the firefighters were still carrying out fire-fighting operations.
The monitoring – informs the Campania Regional Environmental Protection Agency – continues to verify the trend, over time, of the concentrations of micropollutants.
Since the afternoon of last Sunday, August 27, a mobile laboratory has also been active, installed in the immediate vicinity of the fire, which is monitoring the hourly concentrations of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5).
From the analysis of the raw data measured between the afternoon of Sunday 27 August and the morning of 29 August, hourly peaks in the concentration of particulate matter are highlighted, which on 28 August gave rise, for PM10, to an exceeding of the daily average with respect to the threshold set by Legislative Decree 155/2010.
An analysis of the data recorded by the fixed stations of the air quality monitoring network has highlighted, in the Naples station – via Argine, which is located to the north-east and almost 4 km away from the site of the fire, an increase in hourly concentrations of benzene on the afternoon of Sunday 27 August precisely in conjunction with the establishment of ventilation coming from the south-west, the direction in which the warehouse affected by the event is located.
It cannot therefore be ruled out – explains Arpa – that this increase could be attributable to the fire, which at that time had not yet been extinguished. In any case, at this monitoring station, the legal limits for the pollutants monitored were not exceeded on Sunday 27 and Monday 28 August.
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