Village of Bayville Accepts NCPD Antenna Proposal
The Village of Bayville accepted the Nassau County Police Department’s proposal to put a High Tech Microwave Radio System on the village water tower despite public outcry. The reason for the public's concern is the location of the Microwave Antennae which will be across the street from the Bayville Primary School. During the course of the meeting Mayor Siegel had the NCPD remove one of the attendees who was voicing his concern due to the proximity of his home which is directly across from the proposed site.
After the meeting the floor was opened up to questions from the audience. Many residents spoke about their concerns and potential health risks for the children attending the school resulting from the constant exposure to the radio frequency radiation. The Village based their decision on the proposal that there is no evidence that the emissions from the microwave system pose any health concerns, and are "within or below acceptable limits". Two of the village trustees voted no to the proposal.
There was also concern about the existing cellular sites on the tower and the need to remove or limit the amount of these types of structures. The Village currently receives in excess of $200,000 per year in lease agreements from the cellular companies for the space on the tower.
-Jeff Silver
Categories: Microwave Satellite Receivers and Sticks aka -Antennas
Barry or Jeffor any readers,
Did either of you attend the Taxperys PArty meeting where they hosted Matthew Meng from the East Norwich Civic Association, regarding Avalon Bay in Oyster Bay??
I saw the article in the Guardian, but wanted more info on what was presented and how well attended it was.
Thanks
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Hey Margaret,
No I did not attend, but I am pretty sure that it was just intended as an update on where the Avalon Bay issue stands at this point. I attended the meeting at the Sagamore Yacht Club last Saturday and that the purpose of that meeting. They are attempting to solidify the community in anticipation of their next attempt to cram this project down our throats.
Barry
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Has anyone else noticed the new plantings around the fence surrounding the water tower? this is the first time in all the years i've lived here that that area was anything other than dirt, weeds and litter. Does Village Hall think they can distract us from the atrocity on top of the tower by putting some pretty flowers there????
How about planting some big evergreens or shrubbery there that might actually hide the ugly fence and bunker like buildings, not to mention the new buildings that the NCPD will be putting up.
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Gee, i think the flowers surrounding our radioactive water tower are beautiful. I especially like the glow they emit in the evenings.
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i guess we can take the cells from the flowers in 10 years and look to see if the flowers have cell destruction
if the flowers have cell destruction...you have your answer
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Bayville Residents Should be Concerned!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027699/14-die-cancer-seven-years-living-phone-mast-highest-radiation-levels-UK.html
14 die of cancer in seven years living next to phone mast with highest radiation levels in UK
By Rebecca Camber
Last updated at 1:47 AM on 20th June 2008
Fourteen people living within a mile of a mobile phone mast that emits one of the highest levels of radiation in the country have died of cancer.
Four of the deaths have been in a cul-de-sac yards from the site.
A further 20 residents have developed tumours in the last seven years, although they have survived.
Those living in the shadow of the mast have begun a campaign for its removal, claiming that it has caused a cancer hotspot. The Health Protection Agency is investigating.
Worried parents are refusing to take their children to the playing fields where the mast is sited for fear of damaging their health.
The mast was erected in 1995 on a disused water tower on the High Acres estate in Kingswinford, near Dudley, West Midlands.
But campaigners claim health problems started among the 700 residents of the estate when more antennae and dishes were added in 2001.
It serves four mobile phone operators.
Experts from the communications watchdog Ofcom, who carried out tests on the mast, say it has the highest radiation level of any phone mast site surveyed in England this year.
However, the radiation was still within UK safety guidelines.
Wendy Baggott, 52, who leads a protest group against the mast, which is only 200 yards from her home, said: 'It feels like a threatening presence looming all over the neighbourhood.
'Over the last seven years there have been 14 cancer deaths in the area. Four of those happened in this road. The wellbeing of the whole community is being affected.'
The retired NHS clinical auditor, whose husband Clive has twice contracted skin cancer, said: 'It is a massive concern to us that there is a children's play area so near to it.
'Parents and grandparents around here won't let their children go there because they are terrified they could get cancer.'
One resident, Michael Morris, died from a brain tumour in 2003 aged 57.
His widow Pamela, 61, said: 'There have been so many people in the neighbourhood who have died of these cancers.
'Michael used to take the dogs for walks up there by the tower and I wonder if it might have been that.
When these masts came I think it was when he started to go downhill.'
The 14 deaths have included Betty Genner, who was killed by ovarian cancer in 2003 aged 68, and Dorothy Day, 69, who died two years later from cancer.
Six months ago another woman succumbed to a brain tumour. All of them lived within a mile of the mast.
The Government insists mobile phone masts pose no threat to the public.
But some campaigners believe the radiation from masts could be powerful enough to change the composi....
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