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Rand

Farmland near Wagga Wagga. Credit: Rosie Nicolai/DPIE

About the station

Rand

Rand air quality monitoring station is located on a private property in the Murray Local Land Services Natural Resource Management (NRM) Region.

An estimated 905 people live within 25km of this monitoring site (2016 census).

Air quality monitoring region Riverina-Murray
Commissioned 2010
Latitude -35.6296
Longitude 146.475
Elevation 149 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Rand:

  • 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.