​Wind Turbine Memo To Falmouth Town Meeting Members For Nov 6 2017

Wind Turbine Memo To Falmouth Town Meeting Members

The pair of 397-foot-tall wind turbines was intended to power the Blacksmith Shop Road wastewater plant but also sell energy back to the grid.

The original plans were for one single 660-kilowatt wind turbine 1/3 the size of the turbines installed.

As it turns out the town had been warned in advance the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise by the manufacturer of the turbines Vestas of Denmark.

General Electric a domestic wind turbine company refused to place a single 103.5-decibel wind turbine because of ice throw and residential setbacks.

Before any Windmill special permit is issued by the ZBA, the Board should “ensure, through the use of appropriate engineering data, that there shall be no adverse impacts on the neighborhood, in terms of television interference, ice throw, prop throw, noise, etc.

The Town skipped this process altogether.

Yet at trial, the Building Commissioner had to admit that the Windmill By—law (240-166) was part of his consideration in granting the building permit.

Hence: Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty issued the order to shut down Falmouth’s Wind 1 and Wind 2 on June 21, 2017

The Massachusetts court judge agreed with the Falmouth Zoning Board the 110-decibel chest pounding wind turbines are a nuisance.

Dangerous Infrasound aka Ultra-low Frequency Sound causes ear ringing, dizziness, palpitation, and autonomic imbalance, are symptoms caused by ultra-low frequency or infrasound.

Infrasound can penetrate any objects, unlike middle and high-frequency sounds