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NSW Air Quality Monitoring Network (Sydney Stations)

Revision 2026-08-12-sydney-evidence-baseline · effective 2026-08-12

Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-20-source-dates-b5 →

unreviewed

Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 2 claims and 4 source dossiers.

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Change set

  • add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.
  • add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.
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publication dates recorded
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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-414a37995850b7d4 quantitative
New South Wales has routinely monitored Sydney's air since 1951; today the state's Air Quality Monitoring Network runs accredited ground stations across the city, publishing hourly PM2.5, PM10 and gas readings to a public database.
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
NSW's 2025 release states routine Sydney monitoring since 1951 and names the pollutants; the network page documents NATA-accredited stations, continuous particle and gas measurements, hourly ratings and a searchable database.
Caveat
All three sources are from the network operator; no independent performance audit is claimed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NSW Government — Air quality monitoring network
  2. NSW Government — Sydney, breathe easy: new air monitoring station opens
  3. NSW Government — Comprehensive accredited air quality monitoring network
Claim 2 clm-c99949db77880059 descriptive
When air quality is rated ‘Poor’, the documented response is an alert and health advice for subscribers.
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The NSW media release says that a ‘Poor’ rating causes an alert and health advice to be issued to subscribers.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NSW Government — Sydney, breathe easy: new air monitoring station opens

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-12-sydney-evidence-baseline effective 2026-08-12 · created 2026-08-12

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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publication dates recorded
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Actor types
regional-government
Funding model
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Funding description
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Cost
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Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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4 source dossiers

NSW Government — Air quality monitoring network environment.nsw.gov.au · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-6f33b7cdd1fbbb86
Publisher
Name not classified · environment.nsw.gov.au
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-12
Dossier created
2026-08-12
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Operator, pollutants measured, hourly database.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
NSW Government — Sydney, breathe easy: new air monitoring station opens environment.nsw.gov.au · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-9a219c9b17c385f2
Publisher
Name not classified · environment.nsw.gov.au
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-12
Dossier created
2026-08-12
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

1951 start date, Ultimo-UTS station July 2025, alert/subscription service.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
NSW State of the Environment — Air quality soe.epa.nsw.gov.au · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b184e4039240ce24
Publisher
Name not classified · soe.epa.nsw.gov.au
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-12
Dossier created
2026-08-12
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

90+ long-term station count, NATA-accredited methodology, DCCEEW as operator.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
NSW Government — Comprehensive accredited air quality monitoring network environment.nsw.gov.au · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-419bcaa81c1c7d08
Publisher
Name not classified · environment.nsw.gov.au
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-12
Dossier created
2026-08-12
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

NATA accreditation, real ground-station instrumentation.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.