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Gunnedah 2

About the station

Gunnedah

Gunnedah indicative air quality monitoring station is located in Kitchener Park, Osric St, Gunnedah, adjacent to the standard Gunnedah station. The township is situated on the Liverpool Plains of north-west NSW.

An estimated 11,754 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region North West Slopes
Commissioned December 2017
Latitude -30.981876
Longitude 150.260666
Elevation 272 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at the Gunnedah indicative station:

  • 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.