> 5. Judge Stephen Neel refused to reopen the case, saying that Somerville > wasn’t part of the area of major impact covered by the original agreement > (the area in which jet noise regularly exceeds 60 dB)
Judge Stephen Neal is wrong. The sound levels on my front porch from airplanes are regularly that high. At least one low-flying super-heavy per hour hits the 69-70 dB range, although most planes are closer to 65dB.
The price for sound monitoring equipment sounds high. McMaster-Carr sells a NIST-traceable sound meter for under $200, with an accuracy of +/-2dB. My measurements of the noise are so high that such a low-end sound meter could easily demonstrate that sound levels exceed 60dB, even including the margin of error.
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> wasn’t part of the area of major impact covered by the original agreement
> (the area in which jet noise regularly exceeds 60 dB)
Judge Stephen Neal is wrong. The sound levels on my front porch from airplanes are regularly that high. At least one low-flying super-heavy per hour hits the 69-70 dB range, although most planes are closer to 65dB.
The price for sound monitoring equipment sounds high. McMaster-Carr sells a NIST-traceable sound meter for under $200, with an accuracy of +/-2dB. My measurements of the noise are so high that such a low-end sound meter could easily demonstrate that sound levels exceed 60dB, even including the margin of error.