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Merimbula

Oyster farms, Merimbula. Credit: Jaime Plaza van Roon/DPIE

About the station

Merimbula

Merimbula air quality monitoring station is located at the Merimbula Airport on Arthur Kaine Drive, Merimbula in the New South Wales South Coast region.

Air quality monitoring region South Coast
Commissioned January 2020
Latitude -36.90775
Longitude 149.89893
Elevation 6 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants are currently measured at Merimbula:

  • 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.