Environmental surveillance of incinerators: 2006-2009 data on dioxin/furan atmospheric deposition and associated thresholds

In a context of installations complying with current regulations, which means low emission values from industrial plants, this article presents a compilation of recent data (2006-2009) obtained from French MSW incinerator surveillance plans with respect to atmospheric dioxin/furan deposition. Two thresholds are provided that could be used in air quality surveillance as discussed above: 5 and 16 pg TEQ/m2/d. Finally one can insist on the interest of integrated monitoring method such as Owen gauges to measure atmospheric pollution over a long period and detect anomalous situations; not always detectable during spot analysis at the source.