Falmouth Officials Hide Acoustic 110 Db Turbine Noise Warnings

Falmouth Select Board Members: Susan L. Moran, Chairman - Megan English Braga, Vice Chairman- Doug Jones. Samuel H. Patterson. Douglas C. Brown

Board members need to be asked why they are keeping the Vestas warning letter off the town website and from the public?

The board is placing money before health and safety of the public.

The Town of Falmouth maintains a section on the town website called: "Wind Turbine Information," The town has never posted the 110 decibel Vestas wind turbine warning on the town website showing the danger to the public.

Falmouth agreed in 2012 to enter honest open negotiations in the CBI-WTOP ( Wind Turbine Option Analysis Process) negotiations with wind turbine victims to resolve all noise issues in which the town hid this 110 decibel noise warning letter and documents including emails they knew the turbines generate 110 decibels each.

Selectmen Doug Jones, a current board member, was a liaison and attended most, if not all, WTOP meetings. It's time to ask why was the August 3, 2010 Vestas 110 decibel wind warning letter left out of the meetings. This could have avoided hundreds of thousands in litigation

This letter shows that a Vestas 110 decibel wind turbine needs over 2228 thousand feet for a legal noise setback at the Wastewater Treatment Plant

There is NO safe place to build a Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbine.

Map:

KEMA Inc 2005 -

No safe place for a Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt turbine producing 110 decibels of noise

Letter:

SMOKING GUN LETTER 110 DECIBELS

August 3, 2010 : WasteWater Superintendent, Town of Falmouth Public Works
59 Town Hall Square
Falmouth, MA 02540
RE: Falmouth WWTF Wind Energy Facility II "Wind II", Falmouth, MA
Contract No. #3297
"The Town has previously been provided with the Octave Band Data / Sound performance for the V82 turbine. This shows that the turbine normally operates at 103.2dB but the manufacturer has also stated that it may produce up to 110dB under certain circumstances. "

MassCEC Memo:

April 2,2013

Falmouth Wind 1 was one of the earliest municipally-owned megawatt scale wind turbines installed in Massachusetts. Even though the original MTC-commissioned feasibility study for Falmouth under estimated the likely acoustic impact

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Prepared for: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
WIND TURBINE HEALTH IMPACT STUDY

Infrasound refers to vibrations with frequencies below 20 Hz. Infrasound at amplitudes over 100–110 dB can be heard and felt.

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