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Resource Documents: Massachusetts (51 items)
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Request for health assessment
Author: Falmouth (Mass.) Board of Health
The Falmouth Board of Health requests that Mass DPH immediately initiate a health assessment of the impacts of the operation of wind turbines in Falmouth. This appeal is compelled by two years of consistent and persistent complaints of health impacts during turbine operation. We realize that this is an atypical health assessment study. The suspected agent of harm is not a food borne, waterborne, or airborne contaminant. Yet, the Wind Turbine Health Impact Study recently completed by the State suggests . . .
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Tetratech/Delaney Construction photos
Author: Tetratech Construction
Altona, NY Bellmont, NY Cohocton, NY access roads, access road entrances, turbine erection areas, crane pads, staging areas, compacted crane paths, drainage improvements, foundation excavation and backfill, erosion and sedimentation control, dust control, and site restoration Falmouth, MA Fire Island, AK Hardscrabble, NY 34.5kV to 115kV Substation 115kV Switchyard High Sheldon, NY Howard, NY 10 miles of access roads 10 miles of collection lines Lameque, NB Roads and collection systems have to travel through sensative areas such as wetlands and . . .
More »Comments on Mass. Wind Turbine Health Impact Study
Author: Hanning, Chris; Alves-Pereira, Mariana; Shepherd, Daniel; Hartman, Raymond; and Green, Lilli-Ann
Chris Hanning [download] An objective review of the evidence, using the brief provided, would have noted: 1. The large numbers of anecdotal reports and simple surveys which together provide good evidence that wind turbine noise harms health at distances currently permitted in most jurisdictions. 2. The published evidence of research examining the effects on wind turbine noise on annoyance, sleep and health. All five main studies show objective evidence of adverse effects at distances currently permitted in most jurisdictions as . . .
More »Attended Sampling of Sound from Wind Turbine 1, Falmouth, MA
Author: Mass. Department of Environmental Protection
Executive Summary This report presents the results of attended sound sampling of Falmouth’s Wind Turbine #1 located at the Waste Water Treatment Facility on Service Road in East Falmouth. In September, 2011 the town of Falmouth requested the Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to conduct sound sampling of Falmouth’s Wind #1 turbine in response to numerous noise complaints from neighbors. This sampling augments the unattended sound study conducted by the Town’s consultants in the summer of 2010. In order to . . .
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