{"id":6635,"date":"2010-02-18T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=6635"},"modified":"2012-01-21T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:01:54","slug":"vermont-legislators-to-consider-1-25-mile-2-km-setbacks-and-proper-noisevibration-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/vermont-legislators-to-consider-1-25-mile-2-km-setbacks-and-proper-noisevibration-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Vermont considers 1.25 mile (2 km) setbacks (USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"State<\/a><\/p>\n

A group of Vermont legislators has introduced a bill (H.677) requiring the following setbacks and noise\/vibration limits for wind turbines exceeding 0.49 MW.\u00a0 Click here for the full text of the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Setbacks<\/strong>.\u00a0 At a minimum, a wind turbine shall be set back horizontally:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. One and one-quarter miles from 1 an occupied building, if the elevation change between the wind turbine and the occupied building is equal to or less than 500 feet.<\/li>\n
  2. Two miles from an occupied building, if the elevation change between the wind turbine and the occupied building exceeds 500 feet.<\/li>\n
  3. One-half mile from the closest boundary of the parcel on which the wind turbine will be located.<\/li>\n
  4. One-third of a mile from any public highway or right-of-way and from any above-ground utility line or facility.\u00a0 However, this subdivision shall not apply to an electric line that directly connects a wind turbine to a substation or other utility facility.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"road-sign-447x447-c\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Sound limits<\/strong>.\u00a0 At a minimum, a plant subject to this section shall comply with each of the following:<\/p>\n

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    1. Audible sound limit.\u00a0 No plant shall be located so as to generate postconstruction sound levels that exceed preconstruction background sound levels by more then 5 dBA.<\/li>\n
    2. Low frequency sound limit.\u00a0 The LCeq and LC90 sound levels from a wind turbine at the receiving property shall not exceed the lower of either:\n
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      1. An LCeq-LA90 greater than 20 dB outside any occupied building; or<\/li>\n
      2. A sound level of 50 dBC (LC90) from 1 a wind turbine, without other ambient sounds, for a parcel the closest boundary of which is located one mile or more from a state highway or Class 1 or 2 town highway, or of 55 dBC (LC90) for a parcel with a boundary closer than one mile to such a highway.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      3. General sound limit.\u00a0 Sound from a plant subject to this section shall not exceed 35 dBA within 30 meters of any occupied building.<\/li>\n
      4. Demontrating compliance with sound limits.\u00a0 Use of the Kamperman-James Guidelines shall be required in demonstrating compliance with the sound limits of this subsection.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Dr. Pierpont<\/span> has been joined by Dr. F. Owen\u00a0Black (Neurotologist<\/em>:\u00a0 regarding the vestibular symptoms of Wind Turbine Syndrome)<\/span><\/span>, <\/span>Dr. Joel F. Lehrer (Otolaryngologist<\/em>:\u00a0 likewise regarding\u00a0vestibular symptoms of WTS)<\/span><\/span>, and Dr. Stanley M. Shapiro (Cardiologist<\/em>:\u00a0 regarding the cardiac repercussions of sleep deprivation associated with WTS)<\/span><\/span> in supporting this proposed legislation.\u00a0 They have been joined by nationally-ranked noise engineer<\/em>, George Kamperman<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

        Click here for the full text of their letter of support<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

        \"Pierpont<\/a><\/p>\n

        \"Pierpont<\/a><\/p>\n

        \"Pierpont<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}