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ACUMAR Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo

Russ Biggs edited this page Apr 14, 2023 · 4 revisions

ACUMAR (Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo) measures pollution in the Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo river basin around Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The air quality homepage for ACUMAR is available at https://www.acumar.gob.ar/monitoreo-ambiental/calidad-de-aire/

The site is a server rendered PHP site and data are only presented in HTML tables, i.e. no API available. Each table shows the past ~3 days of data, with some lag (~3-4 hours) for the latest measurements.

Historical data are available for download as an Excel spreadsheet at http://jmb.acumar.gov.ar/calidad/historicos.php

Data are available under the "contaminantes" route.

Screenshot 2023-04-13 at 2 54 58 PM

http://jmb.acumar.gov.ar/calidad/contaminantes.php

Parameters

2 Stations are reference grade stations and 2 are open path gas detectors.

The reference grade stations measure:

  • NO2 µg/m³
  • NO µg/m³
  • NOx µg/m³
  • O3 µg/m³
  • SO2 µg/m³
  • CO mg/m³
  • PM2.5 µg/m³
  • PM10 µg/m³
  • H2S µg/m³

The open pass monitors measure:

  • Benzene µg/m³
  • m-Xylene µg/m³
  • p-Xylene µg/m³
  • Toluene µg/m³

Sites:

The reference grade air quality stations are:

The site does not provide coordinates within the web pages but we have been provided with coordinate information for the two stations:

EMC I Dock Sud - -34.667375,-58.329231

EMC II La Matanza -34.883175,-58.682542. Google Streetview