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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Brownsille diary of industrial wind turbine noise
Author: Brownsville, Wisc., family
Entries of a noise log kept by a Brownsville family who live 3/4 mile east of South Byron in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. The diary begins on March 3, 2008. The new wind turbines had just gone on line there.
Download “Brownsville noise diary, March 3 to August 5, 2008″
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Ridgeville and Wilton, Wisconsin, Wind Ordinances
Author: Towns of Wilton and Ridgeville, Wisc.
H. Noise.
1. Audible Sound Limit.
a. No Wind Turbine or group of turbines shall be located so as to cause an exceedance of the pre-construction/operation background sound levels by more than 5 dBA or dBC. The background sound levels shall be the L90 dB sound descriptor (both A and C weighting) measured during a pre-construction noise study during the quietest time of evening or night. Measurements shall be for ten (10) minutes or more. L90 results are valid when L10 results . . .
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Town of Magnolia (Wisc.) Wind Energy Systems Licensing Ordinance
Author: Town of Magnolia, Wisconsin
Download “Magnolia (Wisc.) Wind Energy Systems Licensing Ordinance”
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Town of Chilton (Wisc.) Wind Energy Systems Licensing Ordinance
Author: Town of Chilton, Wisconsin
Download “Chilton Wind Energy Licensing Ordinance”
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Brownsville Diary, March 3 to July 7, 2008
Author: Brownsville, Wis., family
Entries of a noise log kept by a Brownsville family who live 3/4 mile east of South Byron in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. The new wind turbines had just gone on line there.
Download “Brownsville noise log, March 3 to July 7, 2008″
Click here for updated diary through August 5, 2008.
Download “Turbine Layout Map, Brownsville, Wis.”
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Who Said An Industrial Wind Turbine Is No Louder Than Your Refrigerator?
Author: Rock County Tax-Payers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan
Is Your Refrigerator Running? Better catch it — and see if it makes as much noise as a 40 story tall industrial wind turbine.
In anticipation of posting testimony given at the public hearing for the town of Union’s wind ordinance on May 29, here is a document submitted by a member of the Town of Union’s Large Wind Turbine Citizens Study Committee regarding a statement widely used by wind developers comparing the noise an industrial wind turbine to the noise . . .
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Amendments to Calumet County, Wis., ordinance
Author: Calumet County, Wis., Board of Supervisors
These amendments concerning noise and setbacks from wind energy systems were approved into law on March 18, 2008. Includes thorough guidelines for pre- and post-construction noise measurements and estimates of impact from wind turbines.
“The audible sound emitted by Wind Energy System operations shall not be greater than 5 dBA above the background noise level (L90) for the quietest period of the day measured during the pre-build noise study.”
“No low frequency sound or infrasound from wind energy system operations shall be . . .
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Joint Statement to Wisconsin Task Force on Wind Siting Reform
Author: Kamperman, George; and James, Richard
December 13, 2007
To: Wisconsin Task Force on Wind Siting Reform
Subject: Comments on Electric Generation and Supply templates
Re: Wind Siting Reform Policy
Please let us take this opportunity to briefly introduce ourselves. We are noise control consultants with many years of experience in community noise and related land-use planning issues. Mr. Kamperman has over 50 years of experience and was active in the early 1970’s assisting the US EPA, states such as Illinois, and many communities in setting their community noise . . .
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Brownsville Diary, March 3 to April 22, 2008
Author: Brownsville, Wis., family
Entries of a noise log kept by a Brownsville family who live 3/4 mile east of South Byron in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. The new wind turbines have just gone on line there.
Download “Brownsville Diary”
Click here for update to May 13, 2008.
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Wisconsin Wind Ordinances
Author: Rock County Tax-Payers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan
You can download PDFs of these ordinances by clicking on them. We’re in the process of collecting as many Wisconsin wind ordinances as we can. If you know of an ordinance you’d like us to make available, please CONTACT US (click here) and let us know!
Town of Chilton Wind Ordinance
Town of Clay Banks Draft Wind Ordinance
Town of Magnolia Wind Ordinance
Town of Union Wind Ordinance
Trempealeau County Wind Ordinance
State of Wisconsin Draft Model Ordinance
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