One Of Busiest GA Airports In Northeast Creates Noise

Some of the most crowded airspace and busiest airports in the country are located in the northeastern U.S. corridor between Washington, D.C., and Boston, Massachusetts.

One of the busiest general aviation airports in the region is Teterboro (KTEB) in New Jersey with about 175,000 operations per year. It is located in the heart of the New York metropolitan area, about 10 miles northwest of LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) and surrounded by industrial buildings and urban residential housing with Teterboro and Hackensack to the north and Secaucus and Bergen to the south. Any way you cut it, it can be noisy there at times.

As is happening more frequently these days, some of the people who live there say they’re growing weary of the noise and they're willing to use a number of means to express their opinion.... even using their kids to do so... and for a property that was there long before most of them were.

So... they’re trying to do something about it using a novel approach: Girl Scouts. Members of the Rutherford Girl Scout Senior Troop 96898 are trying to bring attention to the noise and air pollution they say has plagued their area for years. As a service activity for their Troop, the girls are attempting to see what 'they might be able to do for their community.' After doing some research into historical records, speaking to Rutherford officials, and listening to city council meetings, the girls allegedly came to the conclusion that they don’t want to stop the air traffic. Instead, they simply want to install a nose monitor in Rutherford, about 2 miles south of the airport under the runway 6 approach; have aircraft use runways 1 and 6 equally when possible; and get public support from elected officials to continue noise monitoring efforts.

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