Ridgewood_12-002_Meteorology_L35815BH_221015

Mr David Milligan, W Donald Milligan Pty Ltd                                                 22 October 2015
Re: Response to Issue Raised in Submission Regarding Meteorological Modelling – Proposed Poultry Growing
        Sheds, Ridgewood                                                              Ref: L35815/BH/12-002




        Figure 1:        Location of On-Site Weather Station


Whilst the overall station siting is reasonable for the analysis of wind directions within the local
area, the vegetation in proximity to the weather station would have the potential to influence
the station-recorded wind speeds at the 1.8 metre above ground level anemometer height.
This specific siting constraint also dictates that a higher percentage of calm wind conditions are
expected to be measured at the 1.8 metre above ground level anemometer height.

Photographs showing the weather station at the location shown on Figure 1 are included as
Attachment 1.

MWA Environmental considers that the on-site weather station may be used as a basis for
validation of acceptable model prediction of wind direction distributions on an annual and
seasonal basis.




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