Wyle Study on City Council Study Session Agenda
City Council Meeting
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21ST, 5:30 P.M.
City Council Chamber, 255 West Alameda St.
PLEASE COME! WEAR YOUR “NO F-35″ BUTTONS
IMPORTANT!
The Draft Wyle Study of Operation Snowbird could open the (back) door for the F-35
http://www.dm.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-101122-086.pdf
Link to the Draft Wyle Study of Operation Snowbird
At the City Council Study Session at 1 PM #8 on the agenda:
Update of the Draft Wyle Study
Scott Hines, head of Davis-Monthan’s 355th Fighter Wing Community Liaison Office, has apparently backed out of his scheduled presentation to the City Council. Instead, discussion of the Draft Wyle Study has been referred to the useless Military Community Relations Committee (MCRC). At a recent meeting of the MCRC Ops Subcommittee, discussion of the Wyle Study was placed as a low priority.
The public may attend the study session but cannot speak.
Please come or watch on Cox Channel 12. It’s important to know what they are saying.
The public CAN speak at the Call to the Audience of the City Council meeting at 5:30. Even if you can’t come to the Study Session, PLEASE COME TO THIS!
“To address the Mayor and Council:
Complete a speaker’s card and deposit it in the tray on the podium. Upon being recognized, state your name and address before proceeding. Speakers are limited to five-minutes.
Submit written comments to the Mayor and Council (via the City Clerk) prior to and during the meeting.
Call the Mayor and Council Citizen Comment Line at 791-4700. Your comments will be distributed to the Mayor and Council.”
Some of the issues:
*There are no limits on the number and type of aircraft that Operation Snowbird can bring in.
*Two past “customers” of Operation Snowbird (the Miramar and Yuma Marine Corps Air Stations) will be getting the F-35 in 2012.
*The most recent Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) of Operation Snowbird was done in 1978. None of the aircraft mentioned in this 32-year-old report are flying today.
*Operation Snowbird is no longer the wintertime readiness program for Air National Guard units from cold weather zones. About the year 2000, it became a year-round combat training program for all sister services and allied foreign pilots.
*Operation Snowbird may be operating in violation of Federal law, the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA).
The Draft Wyle Study states (FALSELY!) that:”
From a noise perspective, this approximate doubling of operations would probably be indistinguishable to the average individual in the context of overall DMAFB operations. Using engineering judgment, it is our opinion that should a noise analysis be accomplished using the Department of Defense approved NOISEMAP program, it is doubtful that the noise contours would increase by more than one dB, if even that, and that such a small difference in noise of all operations versus OSB operations would again be indistinguishable.”
Who are they kidding? The NOISEMAP program is based on 24-hour noise averages. These have little meaning for residents when a Harrier or Tornado flies over their homes. People living closer to D-M also experience direct physical impacts such as cracking of walls and shaking of windows.
A statement from someone who specializes in sound and noise
“The problem is that NoiseMap is an obscure program and produces daily averages, not peaks. So the issue is not that Wyle is wrong, the issue is that NoiseMap and daily averages are not what is relevant for citizens. If I have a neighbor who sets off a firecracker every hour, it probably raises the daily average less than 1 db….”
*An Environmental Analysis (EA) of Operation Snowbird was ordered following the Wyle Study. Why wasn’t an EA done at the time this program was substantially changed 10 years ago? The EA will be coming up in January.
*A company located in Baton Rouge, La. has been hired by the Army Corps of Engineers to do this EA. A firm located near New Orleans is likely familiar with water, wetlands, and the Mississippi River not jet aircraft in the desert.
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