Kazhydromet conducted an unscheduled air sampling in connection with a fire at an ammunition depot in the Bayzak district of Zhambyl region

Due to the fire of the ammunition depot in/h No. 28349 on August 26, 2021 at 19:10 hours (engineering and sapper brigade) of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, located in the Bayzak district, employees of the laboratory of the branch of the RSE "Kazgidrmet" in the Zhambyl region left for the Bayzak district to perform unscheduled sampling and analysis of atmospheric air samples.
The nearest settlements of Ashbulak (120 inhabitants), Zhibek Zholy (500 inhabitants), Kaynar (85 inhabitants), where the fire occurred, are located 20 km from the city of Taraz, in the south-eastern direction.
The concentrations of pollutants were measured by suspended particles (dust), nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and hydrogen fluoride at 5 points.
Point No. 1: Taraz-Almaty highway, 5 km from Taraz, 10h sampling time:40 minutes, distance from the ammunition depot is 14 km, atmospheric air temperature is 30.4 0C, wind speed is 4 m / s, direction is south-west; radiation level is 0.12 msv/h.
Point #2: at the turn 500 m from a.Baizak, sampling time 11h:15 minutes, the distance from the ammunition depot is 12 km, the atmospheric air temperature is 33.2 0C, the wind speed is 8 m/s, the direction is south-south-west, the radiation level is 0.17 msv/h
Point No. 3: near the village of Ushbulak, Baizak district, sampling time 11h: 50 minutes, the distance from the ammunition depot is 8 km, the atmospheric air temperature is 34 0C, the wind speed is 7 m/s, the direction is south-west, the radiation level is 0.15 msv/h
Point No. 4: near the village of Zhibek Zholy, Baizak district, sampling time 12h: 28 minutes, the distance from the ammunition depot is 3.5 km, the atmospheric air temperature is 28.2 0C, the wind speed is 7 m / s, the direction is south-southwest, the radiation level is 0.17 msv/h
Point #5: at the exit from.Sarykemer, sampling time 13h:10 minutes, the distance from the ammunition depot is 10 km, the atmospheric air temperature is 30 0C, the wind speed is 7 m/s, the direction is south-south-west, the radiation level is 0.15 msv/h.
According to the measurement results, no exceedances of the maximum permissible concentrations of pollutants and the level of radiation were detected.