[CPEO-MEF] NOISE: "Roaring controversy over Navy jets on central Whidbey Island" (WA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Roaring controversy over Navy jets on central Whidbey Island
The Navy recently notified Whidbey Island residents that training  
flights will resume, following many months of noise complaints and a  
moratorium.


By Nancy Bartley
Seattle Times (WA)
December 23, 2013

COUPEVILLE, Island County - For the past six years, Babette Thompson  
has lived in a brown, cedar-sided house on Whidbey Island overlooking  
Saratoga Passage. Sometimes Navy planes flew past. Then there were  
more. And more. One day as a Navy Growler flew overhead, the  
vibrations were so intense the glass covering a watercolor in her  
hall shattered.

Not far from her home, another house sustained nearly $14,000 in  
window damage from jet vibrations, according to the homeowner.

Thompson had had enough. She and her husband, John, joined Citizens  
of the Ebey Reserve, one of two groups fighting to rid the island of  
Outlying Landing Field (OLF), Coupeville.

The landing strip was built in World War II when planes were fewer,  
slower and quieter. But the field is now a key training ground for  
Navy Growlers, Boeing-built jets based at Naval Air Station Whidbey  
Island.



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For the entire article, see
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/ 
2022511067_whidbeynoisexml.html?prmid=4939

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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