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Walgett

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

About the station

Walgett

Walgett air quality monitoring station is located at the Bureau of Meteorology airport site. This site is in the North West Local Land Services Natural Resource Management (NRM) Region.

An estimated 2,163 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Far West
Commissioned 2008
Latitude -30.0359
Longitude 148.123
Elevation 132 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Walgett:

  • 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.