On Electric Company yesterday they discussed decibels. For example, a fire truck is 120 decibels; that’s the same decibel level as the Garbage Truck’s blare. This is an article published a couple of years ago but written by me in the same building I’m returning to (but different apartment, thank goodness, further away from the piercing sound). Miracle Alert – I pulled this up today to show you and look at that comment from Scott Vandeweghe, Regional Manager Northeast, Brigade Electronics Inc. Now I’ve got ammunition to fight the city with. One person can make a difference.
Noise Pollution and Your Well Being
by Sheila Cull in Law, March 25, 2008
Are you pulling your hair out because that car alarm won’t shut up? Learn the toll that noise pollution has on your entire body and mind.
On Jeff’s blue Yoga mat, he inhaled through his nose, exhaled through his mouth, and welcomed the morning with bent legs underneath him and a straight back; he grabbed his ankles and held himself in the shape of a bow. Jeff was learning to develop a strong spine, as to handle any stressful situation in his life. Trying for his third deliberate breath he collapses his pose, “Beep!” “Beeeep,” “Beep,” “Beep!”
Jeff rises at 6am and hears this obviously blaring warning horn, Monday through Friday. For Jeff, that sound always seems unexpected. He questions why the limit to the city’s decibel law isn’t reinforced? Why aren’t there a driver, driving, and a cohort watching a highly evolved camera that the vast majority of big industries have? Whatever happened to the guys cocked to the side and hanging on to a steel bar from the back of garbage trucks, smiling at children, like in the day? Is this option too expensive for Jeff’s big city of Chicago?
Transportation vehicles are the worst offenders of noise pollution.
It’s 6:15am and the city garbage trucks are backing up. In reverse, the sound of the horn is heard on an average of 22 times, 5 days a week. The noise pollution problem is especially inauspicious for him and his neighbors; he shares his backyard with thousands of urban dwellers on an entire city block comprised of many buildings on Chicago’s lovely northeast side.
The word noise is derived from the Latin term for nausea, yes – nausea.
Jeff thinks about the sounds that he has no control over like: leaf blowers, car horns, car alarms, airplanes, motorcycles, constructiontrucks backing up and those reversing garbage trucks. Even though intuitively, he knows noise pollution isn’t good for anyone’s soul.
Everyone has a psyche that reacts to noise differently. We don’t see the harmful consequences because there is no immediate cause and effect. Therefore, noise tends to be viewed by many, not as an environmental problem but as a nuisance that we’re becoming used to.
Jeff questions, what are we really doing with environmental integrity? All of today’s environmental issues have a tremendous amount of value. A growing number of people also feel like we need to look at the meaning of this proliferating pollutant.
The definition of noise as a pollutant is subjective because of the gray area in which an individual considers a sound to be loud or not desired, not expected, not pleasant and/or not wanted. Noise pollution can be defined as something repeatedly heard or not by any person under any circumstance, which may compromise their mental and/or physical health.
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Scott.vandeweghe@brigade-electronics.com
On May 11, 2009 at 3:07 pm
We have a guaranteed resolution of the beep-beep back up alarm issue. Brigade Electronics WHITE SOUND Backup Alarms eliminate noise complaints from old style single band tonal alarms. White Sound alarms are easier on the ear, instantly locatable confining the sound to the danger zone behind the reversing vehicle. This new sound technology improves safety, and is the recommended backup alarm to comply with New York Local Law #113, Citywide Noise Mitigation and the Massachusetts DCR noise specification for the Boston Bridge projects. Noise associated with non peak hours operation of reversing alarms that disturbs neighbors is now avoidable. The alarms come with a lifetime warranty & comply with OSHA & MSHA requirements.
Kind regards,
Scott Vandeweghe
Regional Manager – Northeast
Brigade Electronics Inc.
http://www.brigade-inc.com
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