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Air Quality Monitoring

Real time monitoring

Air quality is monitored at ten sites in the city using accurate real time monitoring equipment giving pollutant concentrations on a minute by minute basis.

Monitoring locations are shown in the map below :

Air quality monitoring locations

Map based on Ordnance Survey digital mapping with permission. © Crown Copyright reserved.  City of York Council licence 1000 20818, April 2004.

This table shows which pollutants are monitored at each site. Further information about the air quality monitoring stations operated by City of York Council can be found at our 'JorAir Reporter' website.

Site Pollutants Monitored
 Fishergate
 (roadside) 		 Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate Matter
 Bootham Hospital
 (background) 		 Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate Matter
 St Sampsons Square
 (urban centre) 		 Nitrogen dioxide
 Dunnington
 (background) 		 Ozone
 Gillygate
 (roadside) 		 Nitrogen dioxide
 Lawrence Street
 (roadside) 		 Nitrogen dioxide
 Holgate Road
 (roadside) 		 Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate Matter
 Nunnery Lane
 (roadside) 		 Nitrogen dioxide
 Plantation Drive
 (roadside) 		 Nitrogen dioxide
 Heworth Green
 (roadside) 		 Nitrogen dioxide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Diffusion tube monitoring

Nitrogen dioxide is also monitored at an additional 325 sites in the city using the simpler diffusion tube monitoring method. The most recent diffusion tube results can be found in City of York Council's Air Quality Progress Report, April 2008.