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Moree

Gunnedah landscape at dusk. Credit: Neil Fenelon/DPIE

About the station

About Moree

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

An estimated 9,870 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region North West Slopes
Commissioned 2008
Latitude -29.4897
Longitude 149.847
Elevation 213 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Moree:

  • 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.