5 Monitoring Sites

5.1 Site descriptions

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 substation 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 (6 m)	Temperature (10 m)		Temperature (2 m)
	Y	N		N
Location map			Photograph

5.1.2 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 m to the north west of the site. It is representative of emissions arising from domestic properties in the newer sub-urban areas of Burnside and Bishopdale which lie to the north-west 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 (6 m)	Temperature (10 m)		Temperature (1.5 m)
	N	Y		Y
Location map			Photograph

5.1.3 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 humdity
	N	N		N
	Temperature (6 m)	Temperature (10 m)		Temperature (2 m)
	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 2008, as part of the GEMS/AMIS programme, is given in Table 2 below.

Table 2: Air pollutants monitored at GEMS/AMIS sites, 2008

Site	CO	NO2	SO2	VOC	PM10	TSP	Lead*
Transpower, Gavin Street, Penrose, Auckland AKL009
Greers Road, Burnside, Christchurch CAN002
Coles Place, St Albans, Christchurch CAN003

Note:

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