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Group Meeting to Discuss Noise from Airplanes from Logan Airport

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Residents can come discuss the impact of noise from airplanes over Watertown at an upcoming meeting of the Boston West Fair Skies group. Organizers sent out the following information:

Boston West Fair Skies (BWFS) will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday, January 25 in Winchester. BWFS works towards redistributing airplane noise more fairly among our communities. Wednesday, January 25th, 2017, 7-8:30 p.m., Winchester Public Library, 80 Washington St. Winchester

We are a citizens grassroots organization which includes Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, Watertown and Winchester – all communities affected by the increased airplane noise due to the implementation of 33L RNAV (using GPS) departures at Boston Logan Airport.

Airplane Noise

Group Concerned with Airplane Noise Meeting in Belmont in May

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Boston West Fair Skies (BWFS) will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, May 5 in Belmont, the BWFS Steering Committee announced. Boston West Fair Skies is a group working to reverse the increased airplane noise in our communities that was created by Boston Logan RNAV. The meeting will be held Thursday May 5, 2016  from 7-8:45 p.m. at the Assembly Room in the Belmont Public Library, 336 Concord Ave. Belmont, MA 02478

All are welcome! The citizens grassroots organization includes Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, Watertown and Winchester – all communities affected by the increased airplane noise due to the implementation of 33L RNAV (using GPS) departures at Boston Logan Airport.

Airplane Noise

Logan Airplane Noise Group Meeting in November

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A group working on noise from airplanes going to and from Logan Airport will meet in Somerville in November. The Boston West Fair Skies will hold its next monthly meeting on Monday, Nov. 16, from 7-8:45 p.m. at the Somerville Public Library Auditorium, 79 Highland Ave.,
Somerville. The organization is a coalition formed by towns west of Boston that are affected by the permanent changes in runway 33L RNAV departures made by the FAA at Boston Logan Airport in June 2013. For more information go to:

http://www.bostonwestfairskies.org/

https://www.facebook.com/bostonwestfairskies?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

https://twitter.com/noonBBL/lists/bwfs

Government

Watertown Residents Invited to Meeting About Airplane Noise

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A group of communities will gather to discuss noise and air pollution in the area from airplanes from Logan Airport. Boston West Fair Skies (BWFS) is a regional organization of MetroWest communities (Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Malden, Medford, Somerville, Watertown). The group strongly objects to the new concentrated FAA Highways in the Sky from Logan Runway 33L and the resulting noise and air pollution, according to the announcement. Boston West Fair Skies seeks to educate people about this issue and persuade the FAA to fairly re-distribute these flight paths. For example, our monthly action for May was to write a letter to the FAA, and samples are available on our website, www.Bostonwestfairskies.org

The group will meet on Tuesday, June 9 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Robbins Library, 700 Massachusetts Ave.

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Watertown Will Have A Voice on Issue of Airplane Noise

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Watertown will get a say on a board that advises Boston’s Logan Airport about the noise and air quality related to the airport. Along with Belmont and Arlington, Watertown will have a new regional committee that advises the MassPort Community Advisory Committee – which also overseas airports in Bedford and Worcester. They got the seats thanks to State Sen. Will Brownsberger, who passed an amendment to the supplemental budget adding representatives from the three town with the support of several colleagues, including Watertown State Rep. Jonathan Hecht. Although the Federal Aviation Authority has control over air traffic, MassPort controls airport operations and “the inclusion of Arlington, Belmont and Watertown on the CAC will ensure that our communities have a seat at the table,” Brownsberger’s Legislative Aide Andrew Bettinelli told The Belmontonian. The problems started in the summer of 2013 when the FAA changed the pattern of flights from runway 33L.