#Health
Target:
Santa Barbara County Supervisors
Region:
Lompoc and Mesa Oaks, California

Since Lompoc was settled, the Calvert Ranch land on Purisima and Rucker Roads has been used to grow flowers and vegetables. Recently a Camarillo based Corporation, Rincon Fresh, has moved in to grow strawberries. As part of this operation they have placed up to 40 large, very noisy wind machines to circulate the air and prevent frost damage.
However the surrounding hillsides increase the sound which makes living in the immediately surrounding houses debilitating, hazardous, or impossible.
The sound produced by these machines peaks above 85 Dba which causes hearing and structural damage.
The State recommends residential areas sound levels be less than 50 Dba at night. The current sound levels are what the State classifies as CLEARLY UNACCEPTABLE.
Additionally the low frequency infrasound from the propeller blades damages human soft tissues.
These wind machines are unhealthy and physically damaging to surrounding residents, to the point some have to evacuate their houses.
The sound from these machines is focused by the propeller tip vortices and can travel miles at high intensity.
There are quiet alternatives to prevent frost damage one being hoop houses, another is a quiet, turbofan type wind machine.
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We request Santa Barbara County Supervisors to do whatever is necessary to IMMEDIATELY stop noisy propeller type wind machines from being used on Calvert Ranch land adjacent Purisima and Rucker Roads. There are quiet alternatives available the farm Corporation can use.
Also we request that County ordinances be amended to prevent this noisy propeller type of wind machine from being placed within one mile of any residential development.

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The End debilitating helicopter like noise from agriculture wind machines. petition to Santa Barbara County Supervisors was written by Timothy Brummer and is in the category Health at GoPetition.

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