The noise from flights at Jackson Hole Airport is driving some residents mad. Mad enough to want the airport to go away.
The Jackson Hole Airport Board met today to take public comment on proposals to address noise generated by aircraft on the southern departure route from the airport.
Former Jackson Town Councilman and river guide Jim Stanford said that if the airport board and the FAA fail to
to protect the values of Grand Teton National Park that leaves us no choice as a community but to shutter the Jackson Hole airport and dissolve the Jackson Hole airport board that governs it and use Idaho Falls regional airport.
Neil Rudo said the airport was causing health problem for residents. He told the board that the southern departure causes cancer. He also said the general aviation flights should be banned.
Katherine Turner said she is someone who was so fortunate to grow up in a quiet valley and the value of silence to our health to the health of the ecosystem is so real. She said, “We are frogs getting boiled in noise and your health and your well-being is going to pay for it so I’m here to tell you we have a noise problem.”
The Airport Board asked their staff to determine what it would take to come up with additional special departure procedures and technology that would result in dispersal of some aircraft to lower noise without increasing noise impacts on Grand Teton National Park.
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