UPDATE: Air quality in Offaly town declines further as EPA rating changes
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The air quality in an Offaly town has declined further as the Environmental Protection Agency rating has once again been lowered.
The EPA air quality scale works from 1 to 10 with one being the best. The rating for Banagher moved to five yesterday afternoon and now stands at six which is one step below poor.
This graph shows how the particulate and gas readings collected a the Banagher station in the last 24 hours. It fell overnight but has crept up again this morning
This map clearly shows Banagher as an outlier in the country in terms of air quality with the rating for the area just one step off poor.