Air quality in Morwell continues to be generally good to very good today.
An instrument malfunction sent an incorrect reading of ‘POOR’ to the Morwell south table. We apologise for this error as we are aware of the concern this has created for the community.
Unfortunately, online instrumentation sometimes goes down. EPA received community reports about this and we are thankful for that extra degree of oversight and feedback. Our scientists have since moved quickly to fix the instruments.
When there is a poor reading, we check for emergency events that could cause the reading.
Because of localised issues, such as planned burns and a fire event in Yallourn, EPA moved to rule these possible factors out, before providing confirmation of the malfunction.
We have taken the faulty reading offline as the instrument is being fixed.