||| FROM MICHAEL WELDING for NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY |||
NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. – The Navy completed its first week of real-time sound monitoring at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island as directed by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20).
Flight activity was monitored at 11 sites in proximity to Ault Field and Outlying Landing Field (OLF) Coupeville for seven consecutive days from Sunday, December 13 through Saturday, December 19. Data also continues to be collected in the Olympic National Park at a twelfth site.
The week of monitoring included a range of typical flight activity, including four days of high activity levels, a moderate-level day, and
low-level flight activity on the weekends.
The information will be available to the public once the yearlong monitoring effort is complete and the Navy has submitted the final report.
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So are they going to monitor noise levels when they increase the flights by 75% with 36 new growlers added to the fleet, one wonders? What about hearing loss for people on the ground, and wildlife?
Time to also start monitoring noise levels of Growlers over east Orcas, specifically Doe Bay area. Been here 7 years and I’m hearing more F-18 noise directly overhead, than ever. I record and I report but to what end?