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Cowra

Vineyard, Mitchell Highway, south of Orange. Credit Quentin Jones/DPIE

About the station

Cowra

Cowra air quality monitoring station is located at the Bureau of Meteorology airport site, in the Central Tablelands Local Land Services Natural Resource Management (NRM) Region.

An estimated 11,905 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Central Tablelands
Commissioned 2007
Latitude -33.83818
Longitude 148.65413
Elevation 296 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Cowra:

  • Fine particles as PM10
  • Fine particles as PM2.5
  • Total Suspended Particles (TSP)

Instrument limitations – Most rural network stations use indicative monitors. While best efforts are made to ensure they respond similarly to standard-compliant instruments, care must be taken in interpreting the data compared with Air NEPM standards without additional information.