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Buronga

Outdoor Pastoral Museum, Corner Country, Sturt National Park. Credit: John Spencer/DPIE

About the station

Buronga

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.