"Homeowner Cherie Ratcliffe says aircraft noise remains an occasional problem that is nonetheless very disturbing.
She bought her house only after being shown on a map that it was well outside PTI's noise cone, Ratcliffe says.
"Those noise cones are incorrect," she says. "Whoever drew them needs to spend 24 hours in my house."" --Quoted from The Greensboro News and Record, 5-27-01, in a story titled "PTI noise angers neighbors"

Citizens Aviation Watch Association has now compiled a number of airport-aircraft studies for public viewing on its website.
This will help the researcher, the policy maker, the media, the activist, as well as the general public, to understand just how devastating airport and aircraft emissions are to our health and our fragile environment.

Posted studies show how aircraft noise harms health and our quality of life.

Unlike the ludicrous claims by the federal government that only 500,000 Americans are affected by noise, you can see major studies such as from Cornell University that shows over 10-million American School children are harmed by aircraft noise.

Anyone can now read for themselves to find that just a small number of jet flights can cause a significant increase in cancer risks and that airport and aircraft emissions can affect a large percentage of the population for many miles around an airport.

A layperson might now be able to understand the differences between the various types of airport-aircraft air pollution and its effects on health and understand how various airport pollutants significantly contaminate our aquifers, waterways and water treatment plants.

When you are told that the problems can be mitigated, you can now point to data that shows that the major aviation problems cannot be adequately mitigated for decades.

One can now point to studies from all over the world, to prove that airports and population centers are not compatible with human health and well being.

One can then make the case with evidence that we need better alternatives than expanding over 2,000 airports in the United States alone, to handle the predicted massive amounts of flights.

Below is an index of categories that are covered on the CAWA study website and a sampling of the Health Studies.

If you have any studies that you would like posted please contact jack@areco.org

Jack Saporito

President., US-Citizens Aviation Watch Association

Go to http://www.us-caw.org and then click on the "Studies" menu.

*Air Pollution Studies

*Climate Change Studies

*Compliance

*Fuel Studies

*Health Studies

*Noise Studies

*Reports

*Socio-Economic Impact Studies

*Water Studies

Health Studies:

* Park Ridge, Illinois. O'Hare Toxic Air and Cancer Risk Pollution Study. O'Hare Airport Toxic Air Study discovered over 200 air toxic emissions emitted from airport property. The study shows unacceptable cancer risks from airport operations and flights at O'Hare which affects 98 communities in about a 32 mile radius of the airport, including Chicago proper.

* Fox J. Philis. Summary comments from airport workers on the Oakland Airport expansion. 1997. These analyses indicate that off-site impacts of the Project are already significant and would increase the incidence of cancer and respiratory disease in residential neighborhoods around the airport and among employees at the airport itself.

* Piazza, Bill. Los Angeles School District. Santa Monica Airport Emissions Report. Among many other significant findings, the study shows that with generally only 15 jet flights a day, 5,000 annual, that it causes a significant increase in cancer risks.

* Epidemiological study of Boston's Logan. Among other findings it shows: For the most common respiratory diseases, asthma and allergy, disease is twice as common in the most heavily exposed neighborhood as it is in the least exposed.

* Airport Cancer Maps: US-EPA / Minneapolis Minnesota Cancer Risk Map. US-EPA / Minneapolis Minnesota Non-carcenogenic Inhalation Risk Map. Airport Site map for Minneapolis. Sydney Airports Cancer Map. (Maps are in Adobe PDF format).

* Health data from a residential US-EPA grant study prepared by Seattle-King County Department of Public Health for communities surrounding Boeing Field (King-County International Airport). The data shows significant health spikes in hospitalization and death rates.

* Public health impact of large airports (study for purchase). Public health impact of large airports. Passchier W, Knottnerus A, Albering H, Walda Netherlands.wf.passchier@gr.nl Health Council of The Netherlands, The Hague. Large airports with the related infrastructure, businesses and industrial activities affect the health of the population living, traveling and working in the surroundings of or at the airport. The employment and contributions to economy from the airport and related operations are expected to have a beneficial effect, which, however, is difficult to quantify. More pertinent data are available on the, largely negative, health effects of environmental factors, such as air and soil pollution, noise, accident risk, and landscape changes. Information on the concurrent and cumulative impact of these factors is lacking, but is of primary relevance for public health policy. A committee of the Health Council of The Netherlands recently reviewed the data on the health impact of large airports. It was concluded that, generally, integrated health assessments are not available. Such assessments, as part of sustainable mobility policy, should accompany the further development of the global aviation system.

* Addressing Community Health Concerns Around SeaTac Airport. Washington State Department of Health, Washington State Department of Ecology, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. March 2000. The airport and airport-related activities are potentially major sources of air pollution and environmental justice requires that one group of people not benefit at the cost of environmental degradation affecting the quality of life of another group. Further study is being pursued.

* Williams, Beth., M.S.A. Air Pollution: A Study with Particular Reference to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport ; RCAA White Papers, Book 1. (Reviews air and toxic pollutants commonly found in airport communities and their effects on health and the environment. Summarizes 1991 Washington State Department of Ecology Study and the lack of a monitoring program at Sea-Tac.)

* Airports are known to be major sources of noise, water, and air pollution. Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 105, Number 12, December 1997. The issue of the effect of airports on the environment and human health has heated up in recent years as public interest and citizen groups contest airport expansion on environmental and health grounds, and the airline and airport industries attempt to meet increasingly stringent regulations in these areas.

* Environmental Policies at Europe's Airports': A European study that finds aviation mitigation measures are seen as ineffective and increasingly out paced by growth. While pointing out problems, study suggests some solutions.

* Report from the Environmental Organization, Copenhagen This report concludes that the airport/aviation industry is the single most polluting industry, yet is virtually free from meaningful regulation.

Go to http://www.us-caw.org and then click on the "Studies" menu.

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