Panic broke out, emergency services pulled out en masse and local residents got the urgent call via an NL-Alert: ‘Go inside! Close windows and doors! ‘ Fortunately no one was injured, but the shock was good.
Conversation of the day
The explosion is still the conversation of the day in the village in the Achterhoek. People are still shocked at the local supermarket. ,, You should not have thought of what had happened when the poison cloud had ended up in the village. Then the disaster would probably not have been overseen. Now the air is largely gone. At least that the authorities want us to believe, “says resident Stefan Bley.
For the time being, Stefan Bley is not fishing in the Berkel. © De Telegraaf
,, I regularly go fishing, but I don’t know if that is such a good idea. It is not recommended to go swimming in the Berkel, but what about animals that live there? No, there is still much uncertainty about the effects of the explosion and as long as there is no 100 percent certainty, you have to remain suspicious. ”
Mr. Mensink is also full of suspicion. ,, The research by FrieslandCampina is still ongoing, but we don’t have to worry about the municipality. It’s great that you can already communicate that if you still have to wait for the result. No, I only believe it when I see it black and white. Because how are you so sure that everything is gone. Real substances may have ended up on the ground. It’s that I don’t have a vegetable garden, because otherwise I wouldn’t dare to eat it … “
Mr. Mensink sits people suspiciously. ,, Safe? Why, the results of the research are not yet there … ” © De Telegraaf
The concerns among the population have certainly not disappeared. ,, Do you find it crazy, because the trees around the factory immediately colored brown and have since been removed and there is a swimming ban for part of the Berkel. Those are things that you don’t just do, “says Ria as she packs her groceries.” But I don’t let myself be fooled, because as long as the birds here in the village are still whistling, I am comfortable with it. “
Mayor Joost van Berkelland, which includes Borculo, is happy that the explosion has not resulted in personal accidents. ,, But I want the bottom stone to come up and we can trace the exact cause. Because of course it is clear that this should never happen again. But I don’t worry. We are dealing with two areas, a piece directly around the explosion, where toxic substances and debris have ended up. That area is hermetically deposited and inaccessible. “
The part of the factory where the explosion took place is completely protected from the outside world.
,, The poisonous orange cloud of smoke has been pulled over the other so -called effect area and has probably not ended up on the ground. The cloud has been resolved and our first findings confirm that too, “says the mayor.” I live in Neede where the cloud has come and I just eat the eggs of our chickens that roam around it. But I am well aware that it could have ended very differently. “
Factory partly flat
FrieslandCampina temporarily transfers the production to other factories because it is flat in Borculo and it can take months before it is possible to fully work again. And says that only a handful of reports of damage have been received. “So far they can be counted on two hands,” says Jan-Willen ter Avest. “Of course we do everything we can to prevent these types of incidents in the future and we are especially happy that there have been no victims.”