Effects of industrial Wind Turbine Noise On Sleep and Health

In 2005 Falmouth Massachusetts had produced a noise study map that General Electric wind turbines would exceed 40 decibels of noise on Black Smith Shop Road. General Electric refused to build one industrial wind turbine in Falmouth.

The Town of Falmouth went forward in 2010 building two foreign made wind turbines almost twice as loud and hid a noise warning from Vestas wind company from the public for 5 years .

The Town of Falmouth has always known both their turbines were a health and property taking problem

The town of Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod voted overwhelmingly voted against removing two wind turbines installed at its wastewater treatment plant. Noise warnings, letters, memos and documents were hidden from the public in order to get the vote local officials wanted. The town also avoided the special permit process as it would require additional notifications and hearings at the zoning board of appeals.

The omission of wind turbine documents warning of health and property taking issues is a criminal act

The following is a noise study found in the New Bedford Standard Times only a few miles from Falmouth .

Effects of industrial wind turbine noise on sleep and health

Michael A. Nissenbaum, Jeffery J. Aramini , Christopher D. Hanning

Northern Maine Medical Center, Fort Kent, Maine, USA, Intelligent Health Solutions, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK

Abstract

Industrial wind turbines (IWTs) are a new source of noise in previously quiet rural environments.

Environmental noise is a public health concern, of which sleep disruption is a major factor.

To compare sleep and general health outcomes between participants living close to IWTs and those living further away from them, participants living between 375 and 1400 m (n = 38) and 3.3 and 6.6 km (n = 41) from IWTs were enrolled in a stratified cross-sectional study involving two rural sites.

Note #( 375 meters equal 1230 feet ) ( 1400 meters equal 4593 feet ) - This study is done between 1230 feet and 4593 feet of Industrial Wind Turbines ( IWT )

Validated questionnaires were used to collect information on sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index — PSQI), daytime sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Score — ESS), and general health (SF36v2), together with psychiatric disorders, attitude, and demographics. Descriptive and multivariate analyses were performed to investigate the effect of the main exposure variable of interest (distance to the nearest IWT) on various health outcome measures. Participants living within 1.4 km of an IWT had worse sleep, were sleepier during the day, and had worse SF36 Mental Component Scores compared to those living further than 1.4 km away.

Significant dose-response relationships between PSQI, ESS, SF36 Mental Component Score, and log-distance to the nearest IWT were identified after controlling for gender, age, and household clustering. The adverse event reports of sleep disturbance and ill health by those living close to IWTs are supported.

Keywords: Health, industrial wind turbines, noise, sleep

Source: New Bedford Standard Times - New Bedford Massachusetts

Wind turbne noise study is done between 1230 feet and 4593 feet of Industrial Wind Turbines ( IWT ) ( 375M meters equal 1230 feet ) ( 1400M equal 4593 feet ) -

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