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Walpeup

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

About the station

Walpeup

Walpeup air quality monitoring station is located at the Bureau of Meteorology site. This site is in the Mallee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) region.

An estimated 456 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Far West
Commissioned 2011
Latitude -35.12
Longitude 142
Elevation 105 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Walpeup:

  • 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.