We’ve been a little quiet on our quality project while we waited for the Wiltshire Council Purple Air sensors to come online across Chippenham. Of particular interest is the PM2.5 particulates measured by the Wiltshire Council project. Background Our own air quality monitors have been running in Chippenham for over a year. Ours are battery […]
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Air Quality News and Posts
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Jul
Jul
Zero Chippenham are pleased to participate in the Wiltshire Council Community air monitoring project. We have been given one of the Purple Air PM2.5 monitors, which we have co-located with our Langley Road Sensor. The correlation of readings should allow us to verify our own air quality monitor readings. Though both monitors use similar technology, […]
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Jun
Jun
The Chippenham Air Quality measurements for June 2025 are now available. The four sensors have now been in place for a year, so we can compare with June 2024. Rowden Hill June 2024 – The average PM2.5 particulates for June 2024 was 20.7 ug/m3 June 2025 – The average PM2.5 particulates for June 2025 are […]
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May
May
Our Air Quality readings for April 2025 are now in for Langley Road, Rowden Hill, and Marshfield Road. Our Wood Lane sensor is temporarily out of action. Of particular interest is the Langley Road sensor which is adjacent to the Langley Park Housing development. This development has caused considerable concern to nearby residents due to […]
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Mar
Mar
The latest results for Chippenham Air Quality February 2025 are now in… Unfortunately our Wood Lane Air Quality Monitor has been out of action due to a wifi router change, but will hopefully be back in action in a few days. Our Rowden Hill monitor has also missed a couple of weeks due to flat […]
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Jan
Jan
In this post we take a quick analysis of Air Quality across Chippenham in the December 2024 to early January 2025 time period. Specifically we look at small particulate pollution PM2.5 in the four monitoring locations across Chippenham. What are the standards? The Air Quality standards 2010 state that an annual average for PM2.5 shouldn’t […]
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Oct
Oct
Our Chippenham Air Quality Statistics are in for September 2024. One of the most interesting regions is Rowden Hill where a set of temporary traffic lights caused traffic queues on the A4 next to our Air Quality monitor on Rowden Hill. The Particulate Pollution recorded by our Rowden Hill monitor was ten times the World […]
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Aug
Aug
Introduction July and August has been an interesting month for Chippenham Air Quality. With London Road closed and one of our monitors at the centre of traffic diversion controversy it’s been an interesting time. The Wood Lane monitor readings were used as evidence to help add extra signage to prevent cars diverting through Wood Lane. […]
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Jun
Jun
After the first month of our citizen science Air Quality monitoring in Chippenham, the quick analysis results are in… Looking at Particulate Matter PM2.5 pollutants averaged over the month from 24th May to 23rd June 2024… Rowden Hill 20.7 µg/m3 Marshfield Road 18 µg/m3 Langley Road 15.88 µg/m3 Wood Lane 9.5 µg/m3 Please note these aren’t calibrated sensors, and […]
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May
May
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