The touchy subject of airplane noise

[catling42.livejournal.com]

Has anyone else noticed the steep jump in airplane noise recently? I was woken at 6:30am by low flying planes today and I feel like its the last straw after weeks of not getting a full night due to the air traffic noise. Is there anything we can do? Anyone have any great tricks to sleep through it? I'm in Ball Square, if that matters.

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RE: There's more to the story

[davelew.livejournal.com]

It's not just that Massport measures noise over a broad area, they literally don't measure noise in Somerville or even in Cambridge. They have a noise monitoring station in Everett, and another in Medford (on Magoun Ave, on the other side of I-93 from Somerville, near exit 32 of I-93). Davis Square is far enough from Everett and I-93 that those noise monitoring stations don't accurately reflect the noise here.

Based on my measurements of the airplane noise from my porch, I believe that many homes in the Ball Square area would be eligible for free soundproofing from Massport, if Massport honestly and accurately measured the noise from planes taking off from runway 33.