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Griffith

Farmland near Wagga Wagga. Credit: Rosie Nicolai/DPIE

About the station

Griffith

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

An estimated 26,180 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Riverina-Murray
Commissioned 2012
Latitude -34.24889
Longitude 146.06981
Elevation 132 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Griffith:

  • Fine particles as PM2.5
  • Fine particles as PM10
  • 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.