Impacts of Portsmouth High School wind turbine on neighbors
Patch.com|Dave, a Neighbor to the turbine|Oct 12, 2017
Today is October 12, 2017 and it has been a good 4 weeks of shadow flicker created by the Wind Turbine at the Portsmouth High School. This shadow flicker is making neighbors sick! You get nauseous or maybe a bit dizzy as the shadow flicker goes by for an average of 2 hours a day. The shadow flicker has been here since the spring around our neighborhood, but now for the last 4 weeks my street is engulfed. You can not do work, homework, watch tv, or much of anything else. Then you have the noise, the sound of a small jet plane coming in for a landing, but never lands. You can call the police department if the noise level is above 55 dba at night, which it does a few time a week, especially around the fort butts neighborhood. You complain to …
... more [truncated due to possible copyright]Today is October 12, 2017 and it has been a good 4 weeks of shadow flicker created by the Wind Turbine at the Portsmouth High School. This shadow flicker is making neighbors sick! You get nauseous or maybe a bit dizzy as the shadow flicker goes by for an average of 2 hours a day. The shadow flicker has been here since the spring around our neighborhood, but now for the last 4 weeks my street is engulfed. You can not do work, homework, watch tv, or much of anything else. Then you have the noise, the sound of a small jet plane coming in for a landing, but never lands. You can call the police department if the noise level is above 55 dba at night, which it does a few time a week, especially around the fort butts neighborhood. You complain to the town hall official Leon C. Lesinski and his response is well your the only one complaining. Then you speak to your neighbors and they tell you that they have complained. Some who don't live next to the Wind Turbine make uneducated comments like, it pays the bill. Why doesn't the council put the Wind Turbine in their backyard? Because they don't want it! Not in my back yard!
We the people in these neighborhoods have reach an end. Living with this injustice that keeps us up at night from the noise, noise/pressure that gives us headaches, noise at night requires some to take sleeping pills, some experience nausea, dizziness, vertigo, and frazzling many nerves.
Now I ask, what can we all do to remedy this situation? Should the town require the owners, Wind Energy Development, a North Kingstown-based company, to shut off the Wind Turbine between the hours of 7 pm to 6 am? Should the town require the Wind Turbine be shut off during shadow flicker hours?
Solar Panels on all the municipal buildings would be a far more profitable and wiser thing to do for us citizens, especially for those who have to live next to the Wind Turbine. All my life I have lived in Portsmouth and would never think our town council and officials would ever allow such a horrible living condition for us citizens.