A NSW Government website

Lameroo

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

About the station

Lameroo

Lameroo air quality monitoring station is located at the Bureau of Meteorology compound . This site is in the SA Murray Darling Basin Natural Resource Management (NRM) Region.

An estimated 968 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Far West
Commissioned 2012
Latitude -35.3778
Longitude 140.538
Elevation 112 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Lameroo:

  • 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.