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Moolawatana

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

About the station

Moolawatana

Moolawatana air quality monitoring station is located on private property. This site is in the South Australia Arid Lands.

An estimated 2 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Far West
Commissioned 2008
Latitude -29.9072
Longitude 139.737
Elevation 94 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Moolawatana:

  • 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.