Author, as appears in the article.: Rovira, Joaquim; Dominguez-Morueco, Noelia; Nadal, Marti; Schuhmacher, Marta; Domingo, Jose L
Department: Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: Domingo Roig, José Luis / DOMINGUEZ MORUECO, NOELIA / Nadal Lomas, Martí / Rovira Solano, Joaquim / Schuhmacher Ansuategui, Marta
Keywords: Soils Seseña tire landfill fire Pahs Cancer risks Air seseña tire landfill fire pahs cancer risks air
Abstract: In May 2016, a big fire occurred in an illegal landfill placed in Seseña (Toledo, Spain), where between 70,000 and 90,000 tons of tires had been accumulated during years. Just after the fire, and because of the increase of airborne PAHs, we found that cancer risks for the population living in the neighborhood of the landfill were 3-5 times higher than for the rest of inhabitants of Seseña. Some months after our initial (June 2016) study, two sampling campaigns (December 2016 and May 2017) were performed to assess the temporal trends of the environmental levels of PAHs, as well as to reassure that these chemicals did not pose any risk for the human health of Seseña inhabitants. In soils, the total concentrations of the 16 PAHs (December 2016), as well as the sum of the seven carcinogenic PAHs, showed values between 8.5 and 94.7 ng g-1 and between 1.0 and 42.3 ng g-1, respectively. In May 2017, a significant decrease (between 4 and 38 times) in the levels of PAHs in air was observed, with total concentrations ranging between 3.49 and 5.06 ng m-3. One year after the fire, the cancer risk at different zones of Seseña was similar, being lower than that found in June 2016, and negligible according to national and international agencies.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Química Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina i Materiais Interdisciplinar Geociências General medicine Environmental sciences Environmental engineering Ensino Engineering, environmental Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Biotecnología Antropologia / arqueologia
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 10934529
Author's mail: joaquim.rovira@urv.cat joseluis.domingo@urv.cat marti.nadal@urv.cat marta.schuhmacher@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-4399-6138 0000-0001-6647-9470 0000-0002-0217-4827 0000-0003-4381-2490
Record's date: 2024-10-12
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Link to the original source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10934529.2017.1387023?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Journal Of Environmental Science And Health Part A-Toxic/Hazardous Substances & Environmental Engineering. 53 (3): 222-229
APA: Rovira, Joaquim; Dominguez-Morueco, Noelia; Nadal, Marti; Schuhmacher, Marta; Domingo, Jose L (2018). Temporal trend in the levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emitted in a big tire landfill fire in Spain: Risk assessment for human health. Journal Of Environmental Science And Health Part A-Toxic/Hazardous Substances & Environmental Engineering, 53(3), 222-229. DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2017.1387023
Article's DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2017.1387023
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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