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Lake Burragorang, Nattai National Park. Credit: John Spencer/DPIE

About the station

Bargo

Bargo air quality monitoring station is located on a residential property at Silica Road, Bargo.  It is in a rural area on the far south-west edge of the Sydney basin.

Air quality monitoring region
Commissioned January 1996
Latitude
Longitude
Elevation 365 metres

Data collected

The following air pollutants and meteorological variables are currently measured at Bargo:

  • Fine particles as PM10
  • Fine particles as PM2.5
  • Oxides of nitrogen (NO, NO2 and NOx)
  • Ozone (O3)
  • Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
  • Visibility using nephelometry
  • Ambient temperature
  • Relative humidity
  • Wind speed, wind direction and sigma theta