Environmental issues

Air

1.6 Structure of the report

This report summarises the findings of each component of the EPA air toxics study: dioxins; organics; PAHs; and heavy metals.

Chapters follow the same general structure for each of the air toxics groups:

  • introduction, including sources of the pollutants
  • the measurement program
  • results/average concentrations
  • comparisons with international benchmarks (standards, future goals and studies) and other Australian data, where available
  • conclusions about current levels of the pollutants (relative to those benchmarks)
  • a summary of current and proposed management strategies.

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