Residents who live close to George Bush Intercontinental Airport have succeeded in getting airport officials to agree to a noise study:
Airport manager Tom Bartlett and Rick Barrett, senior project manager for noise compliance, discussed the status of a planned noise model study and noise monitoring with members of the Coalition of Homeowner Alliances Requiring Government Equity (or CHARGE) at a town hall meeting Monday at North Harris College.
A contract that would fund the study is expected to go to Houston City Council for approval in the new few weeks.
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The project should be completed in three or four months, which keeps the project close within the time line set for the study, said Barrett.
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Numerous noise complaints have come into the airport’s noise compliance office since the opening of the new runway, and after the FAA lowered the glide slope altitude near the airport from 3,000 feet to 2,000 feet.
This move, say many, has affected people whose homes and businesses are miles away from the airport than residents in the closer subdivisions such as Woodcreek, Foxwood, Kenswick and Northshire.
Once the study is complete, the information will be turned over to the FAA for review and consideration for possible mitigation, said Bartlett.
The story also mentions an interesting point: the airport wanted to use the same contractor who did the original study when the runway was planned, but the residents asked congressmen Gene Green and Kevin Brady to intervene and the city of Houston agreed to a new contractor.
