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Grafton

Cane fields near Lismore. Credit: Don Fuchs/DPIE

About the station

Grafton

Grafton air quality monitoring station is located at Grafton Primary Industries Institute, Grafton, in the New South Wales Northern Rivers region.

Air quality monitoring region Northern Rivers
Commissioned November 2019
Latitude -29.62236
Longitude 152.96063
Elevation 35 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Grafton:

  • 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.