Friday, March 10, 2000
Airport noise assurances offered
Delhi Twp. residents voice concerns
BY MARIE McCAIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
DELHI TOWNSHIP — It was concern that brought Dick Hasselbeck to the Delhi Senior Center on Thursday night — concern that his home would be part of a new flyover route for airplane traffic.
But after listening to details about noise abatement plans that Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport officials have for their newly proposed runway, the Price Hill resident went home happy.
“Now my mind is at ease,” he said Thursday. “My home won't be in the paths, and I won't be affected.”
Mr. Hasselbeck was one of several citizens who attended the airport's joint workshop and public hearing Thursday.
The effort gave citizens a chance to voice their concerns about jet noise levels, and offered them a direct briefing by airport and Federal Aviation Administration officials about the proposed project.
Comments from the public hearing will be used as part of a noise compatibility study being conducted by the airport. Called Part 150, the document will help officials determine the paths jet aircrafts use on takeoffs and landings.
The study is a vital part of the information the FAA will review before deciding whether to approve the airport's plan, said Peggy S. Kelley, an FAA official based in Memphis, Tenn.
She said the FAA will prob ably issue its decision in early 2001.
On Wednesday, about 120 residents in Boone County attended a similar meeting.
That group was much more vocal, something airport officials expected since research has shown noise levels in Boone County are much worse there than in the western neighborhoods of Cincinnati.
Dale Huber, the international airport's deputy director of Aviation, said much of the concern residents have expressed is based on “what- ifs.”
“We try to answer all the what-ifs and calm people,” he said, adding that technological advances have made it much easier for airports to manage noise levels.
A flight management system, a computerized navigation system, could be used to ensure that as much as 98 percent of departure routes take jets along the Ohio River instead of over dwellings, he said.
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