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Appendix B: Exposed population

 

Station	Exposed population
Sydney Region
Blacktown	Trend station in a largely residential area in the north-west sub-region.
Bringelly	Trend station in a rural area in the south-west of the Sydney basin.
Lidcombe	Trend station in a mixed residential and commercial area. It has a very long record (established 1970).
Macarthur	Trend station in the south-west of the Sydney basin. Data from Liverpool will be reported until this station is established.
Oakdale	Rural area on the far SW edge of the Sydney basin - upper bound site for ozone.
Richmond	Trend station representing the residential area in the north of the Hawkesbury basin.
Rozelle	Trend station within the Parramatta River valley. Existing long-term station.
St Marys	Upper bound station for ozone in a residential area.
Sydney CBD	Upper bound station for CO and Pb in the central business district. This is a peak site adjacent to a heavily trafficked road in an urban canyon.
Woolooware	Trend station in a residential area on the south of Botany Bay and within five kilometres of a major industrial complex. Represents coastal conditions south of the CBD, reporting peak levels when precursors are trapped within coastal circulations.
Lower Hunter
Beresfield*	Performance station in a semi-rural area used as a proxy for the yet-to-be-established Maitland site.
Newcastle	Trend station within the main population centre.
Wallsend*	Performance station in a residential area used as a proxy for the yet-to-be-established Maitland site.
Illawarra
Albion Park	Performance station in a semi-rural area in the south of the region.
Kembla Grange	Upper bound station in a residential area to the west of Lake Illawarra.
Warrawong	Upper bound station in an industrial-residential area.
Wollongong	Trend station in the main population/commercial centre.
Tamworth	Rural township campaign station established 2000.
Bathurst	Rural township campaign station established 2000.
Wagga Wagga	Rural township campaign station established 2001.
Albury	Rural township campaign station established 2000.
Dubbo	Rural township campaign station scheduled for January 2004.
Orange	Rural township campaign station scheduled for January 2004.
Lismore	Rural township campaign station scheduled for January 2004.

* it is the intention to replace the Beresfield and Wallsend stations with a station in the Maitland area. In the interim, data will be reported from these two stations.

Future campaign stations are scheduled on the assumption that initial campaign monitoring will not allow screening.