Birkenhead and Peterhead Air Quality Monitoring Campaign – September 2024 to September 2025

The South Australian Environment Protection Authority (EPA) undertook an air quality monitoring campaign on the Le Fevre Peninsula between September 2024 and September 2025. The campaign was to assess potential environmental impacts to the local community in response to concerns about dust emissions from the Adelaide Brighton Cement (Adbri) Birkenhead facility. As part of this campaign, two mobile monitoring stations were installed in the area to supplement existing EPA monitoring locations – one in Birkenhead and one in Peterhead.

These stations measured total suspended particulates (TSP) and particles with a diameter of 10 micrometres or less (PM₁₀), which includes particles with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less (PM_2.5). Dust composition analysis was also undertaken using two high-volume samplers with a directional wind switch at Birkenhead and a dust deposition gauge at a residential property on Walker Street, Birkenhead.

The Birkenhead and Peterhead Air Quality Monitoring Campaign fact sheet (issued December 2025) summarises the results of the 12-month campaign.

The EPA has also prepared an Air Quality Monitoring Campaign Report with further detail about the results.

The EPA will continue to monitor for PM₁₀ and PM_2.5 at the Le Fevre 1 and Le Fevre 2 air quality monitoring stations into the future. The EPA has also required Adbri to implement a range of improvements that will reduce dust emissions from the facility through an environment improvement programme (EIP) and EPA licence conditions. Please see the EPA’s Regulatory Response and Actions fact sheet for further information about the EPA’s response to the findings of the monitoring campaign.