More airplanes have been flying over Pacifica, said one Vallemar resident, Ken Miles.
Rattled by the noise, Miles attended an SFO Noise Abatement Roundtable meeting in October.
Miles noted 25 additional San Mateo County towns with representatives and residents all complaining about increased noise.
A presentation at the meeting concluded Peninsula complaints increased from 14,000 in June to 18,000 in July, 40,000 complaints in August to more than 90,000 complaints in September.
Explanations ranged from increased air traffic, flying too low over residential areas, and flying off course. Blame was set with the FAA for a couple reasons - failure to fine for increased noise, and for setting prescribed flight routes for planes at SFO.
“For whatever reason, FAA is routing airplane traffic over numerous residential areas, without properly studying and considering the environmental impacts on people living in those areas, nor attempting to take corrective actions once unintended consequences become known,” Miles said.
Miles’ letter to the SFO Airplane Noise Abatement Roundtable officials referred to a complaint he recently filed with that group.
“There’s been an increase of loud airplane noise over our home, often hearing planes seven days a week, sometimes before 6 a.m. and after midnight,” he wrote in the letter.
“Instead of flying out over the ocean, then making their way south or southeast to avoid residential areas, now they climb and make their turns directly over Pacifica. We believe the airlines have altered their flight paths to save fuel and time.”
He asked that group to respond to complainants on a myriad of issues – changing flight plans, and asked them to describe altitude of most SFO planes, how many airplanes exceed 65 decibel limit, and to describe engines and noise ratings for the planes.
Mayor Pro Tem Sue Digre is the city’s representative for those meetings. She attended the meeting, as well.
Digre said she is giving detailed information from Pacificans to the Airport Noise Department and to a representative from Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s office.
“They are doing in depth research and are close to figuring this out. We need a little more data to pinpoint the cause. Residents are encouraged to send me their address, date, and whatever data they can write down - time of day, duration of the noise, if they can see any markings on the plane, weather to digres@ci.pacifics.ca.us. Residents are suffering and we are working hard to determine how to stop it as soon as possible,” she said.
- Source: http://www.marinscope.com
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