Buronga air quality monitoring station is located at the Environment and Heritage Research Centre. This site is in the Western Local Land Services Natural Resource Management (NRM) Region.
An estimated 54,903 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).
| Air quality monitoring region | Far West |
| Commissioned | 2003 |
| Latitude | -34.1747 |
| Longitude | 142.201 |
| Elevation | 51 metres |
Data collected
The following air pollutants are currently measured at Buronga:
- 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.