One of the London network’s longest running monitoring sites, Havering 1 Rainham, has reopened. The original NOx monitoring site was decommissioned when the old Rainham Police Station, was sold. Monitoring has now been relocated just over the fence in the grounds of the Brenda Blakemore Community Centre. The new site has been enhanced by the addition of state of the art particulate monitoring, using a dichotomous 1405DF FDMS, capable of EU reference equivalent monitoring of both PM10 and PM2.5 from the same instrument. This is the first time such equipment has been used on a network in the UK, the only other unit in the country having been employed in research monitoring.

The site was reopened by Havering Council with support from Riverside Resource Recovery Limited (RRRL). It forms part of a network of local authority background monitoring sites, supported by RRRL in order to characterise background air pollution concentrations in east London.

Item date 13/05/2013