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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2020 Mar 21;722:137891. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137891

Table 3.

Characteristics of the two adjacent home demolitions, at each of which a single chrysotile asbestos fiber was detected.

Home 1 Home 2
Year built 1970 1942
# of stories 2 2
Square footage 1,065 728
Date of demolition 1/15/18 1/15/18
Demo start and stop times 1:30pm – 4:22pm 12:05pm – 4:22pm
Temperature 18 ° F 18° F
Humidity 82% 82%
Samples taken downwind? Yes Yes
Average wind speed 3 mph 3 mph
Peak wind speed 5 mph 5 mph
Precipitation Yes Yes
Pump run time (mins) 258 262
Average flow rate 12.2 12.0
Total volume (L) 3146 3148
TEM asbestos fibers / cc 0.00027 0.015
Fiber length 13.33μ 19.99μ
Fiber diameter 0.27μ 4.00μ
Fiber aspect ratio 49.4 5.0