Logan Airport To Top Agenda Of Next Milton Select Board Meeting

MILTON, MA — The Milton Select Board will dedicate its next meeting on Wednesday to discussing the Federal Aviation Administration's environmental assessment for a proposed area navigation approach procedure for Runway 4 Left at Logan Airport. While the FAA determined in a 2015 study that the RNA would not cause a significant increase in noise impact, Milton residents have been outspoken about noise that flight paths to Logan already cause in the town.

Tensions between the town and the airport ticked up further last month when the FAA confirmed that an inflatable evacuation slide from a Delta flight from Paris fell off on its approach and landed in a Milton backyard. U.S. Rep. Steven Lynch said following that incident that residents of Milton and surrounding communities should not have "to live in fear of debris falling from the sky."

The congressman said he asked to meet with FAA officials, along with State Sen. Walter Timilty, for an explanation of what happened and to urge for further review of flight paths that he said "have been plaguing Milton and nearby communities with relentless airplane noise and pollution for years."

The FAA said it anticipates providing an overview of the project to the Massport Community Advisory Committee at their next quarterly meeting in January. That discussion will be in advance of the formal community engagement process, which will include notifying the general public, community workshops and the opportunity for the public to comment on the environmental assessment when it is completed later this year.

The FAA said it sent notification of the assessment to "stakeholder communities" South Boston, Roxbury, Milton, Dorchester, Mattapan, Quincy, Hyde Park, Braintree, Canton and Randolph.

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