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GEMS/AMIS Air Quality Monitoring Programme Annual Report 2009

• 1 Summary
• 2 Introduction
• 3 Air Pollutants Monitored
• 4 Ambient Air Quality Guidelines and Standards
• 5 Monitoring Sites
• 6 Methods
• 7 Results and Discussion

5 Monitoring Sites

5.1 Site descriptions

A brief description of all the monitoring sites in the GEMS/AMIS air quality monitoring programme is given below. This includes one Auckland site at Gavin Street in Penrose and two sites in Christchurch at Greers Road, in Burnside and Coles Place, in St Albans. (Note at Coles Place, only TSP, lead and VOCs are monitored by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE).)

5.1.1 MfE Gavin Street, Penrose, Auckland – Site AKL009

Site name	MfE Gavin Street, Penrose			Site ID		AKL009
Address	Transpower, Gavin Street, Penrose, Auckland			Site class		Industrial – dense / Traffic – peak
Description
This site is operated by Watercare Services and is located within the grounds of the Transpower NZ Ltd electrical sub-station on Gavin Street, Penrose. It is representative of road, vehicle and industrial emissions in the Penrose area which lies to the southeast of Auckland City and is also approximately 120 metres northeast of the Southern Motorway. There are residential properties immediately to the northeast of the site. During 2003, parallel monitoring was undertaken between this site and the neighbouring ACI site on Great South Road, in Penrose with a view to consolidating all monitoring at the Gavin Street site early in 2004.
Pollutants monitored	CO	NO2			SO2		VOCs
	N	Y			Y		Y
	PM10	TSP			Lead
	Y	Y			Y
Meteorological parameters monitored	Wind speed	Wind direction			Relative humidity
	Y	Y			Y
	Temperature (6m)	Temperature (10m)			Temperature (1.5m)
	Y	N			N
Location map			Photograph

5.1.3   MfE Greers Road, Burnside, Christchurch – Site CAN002

Site name	MfE Greers Road, Burnside			Site ID		CAN002
Address	Transpower, Greers Road, Burnside, Christchurch			Site class		Residential – neighbourhood
Description
This site is operated by Watercare Services and is located in a paddock to the rear of the Transpower NZ Ltd electrical substation on Greers Road, and is surrounded by residential properties on four sides. Greers Road is approximately 100 metres to the northwest of the site. It is representative of emissions arising from domestic properties in the newer suburban areas of Burnside and Bishopdale which lie to the northwest of Christchurch city centre. The site was commissioned in November 2002 and replaces the former GEMS/AMIS site which was located off Madras Street, St Albans.
Pollutants monitored	CO	NO2			SO2		VOCs
	Y	Y			Y		Y
	PM10	TSP			Lead
	Y	N			N
Meteorological parameters monitored	Wind speed	Wind direction			Relative humidity
	Y	Y			Y
	Temperature (6m)	Temperature (10m)			Temperature (1.5m)
	N	Y			Y
Location map			Photograph

5.1.4   MfE Coles Place, St Albans, Christchurch – Site CAN003

Site name	MfE Coles Place, St Albans			Site ID		CAN003
Address	Coles Place, St Albans, Christchurch			Site class		Residential – neighbourhood
Description
This site is operated by Environment Canterbury and is located on an area of public open space at the end of Coles Place. It is surrounded by residential properties on four sides. It is representative of emissions arising from domestic properties in the older sub-urban area of St Albans which lies to the north of Christchurch city centre.
Pollutants monitored	CO	NO2			SO2		VOCs
	N	N			N		Y
	PM10	TSP			Lead
	N	Y			Y
Meteorological parameters monitored	Wind speed	Wind direction			Relative humidity
	N	N			N
	Temperature (6m)	Temperature (10m)			Temperature (1.5m)
	N	N			N
Location map			Photograph

5.2 Air pollutants monitored at GEMS/AMIS sites

An overview of the air pollutants monitored at each site during 2009, as part of the GEMS/AMIS programme, is given in table 2 below.

Note:

* Lead is measured from the TSP filters collected during the months of June, July and August only.

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