Saturday, November 1, 2008

Panel seeking specifics on noise


"I think if we knew ambient and could come up with an average, that would give us something to work with," said Beth A. White, president of Voters for Wind.

TIMES STAFF WRITER

CAPE VINCENT — Members of the committee formed to produce a zoning amendment to deal with wind farms want specifics.
During a meeting Thursday afternoon, the committee agreed to ask the acoustical engineering firm Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Sudbury, Mass., to evaluate the noise-measuring methods in different laws. That firm panned Hessler Associates' ambient noise study in BP Alternative Energy's draft environmental impact statement for the Cape Vincent Wind Farm.