Neighbors say noise from Norwood Airport has become unbearable

NORWOOD – A longtime Norwood resident is fed up with the noise from a close-by regional airport. 

“It has been good and quiet till mid-Could,” stated Diane Wiffin. “Then, it was like residing close to Logan Airport.” 

Wiffin lives a couple of half-mile from Norwood Memorial Airport and stated over the previous a number of months, the noise has turn out to be insufferable. 

“Since mid-Could till now, there have been 6,000 planes flying overhead,” she stated. 

Too many for this little neighborhood, Wiffin defined. The noise begins round 7:30 a.m. into the early night. 

“Lots of my neighbors work from home, so it’s disruptive. And it is each day, seven days per week,” she stated. 

“We’re one of many busiest airports within the state consider it or not,” Norwood Memorial Airport supervisor Mark Raymond informed WBZ-TV.
He stated building at Norwood Memorial Airport compelled crews to redirect flights over Rock and Winfield streets. The demand for flight coaching has additionally skyrocketed. 

“The airways are determined for pilots,” Raymond defined. “Lots of people are studying to fly hoping to be employed by the foremost airways.” 

Determined for some peace and quiet, Wiffin and her neighbors gathered dozens of signatures. They even attended airport fee conferences, begging officers to rethink the flight sample to no avail. 

One neighbor is worried about extra than simply the noise. 

“I even have two younger youngsters and I fear in regards to the air air pollution is rising due to the elevated quantity of flights, the elevated air site visitors. That is a priority for us.” 

Those that run the regional airport informed WBZ-TV their palms are tied. It is as much as the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, to make these selections. 

“Sadly for us, we do not have authority over the airspace. It is not that we do not need to do something – we will not do something,” Raymond stated. 

Norwood is not the one city upset in regards to the airplane noise. Neighbors in Milton have complained for years in regards to the flight patterns from Boston’s Logan Worldwide Airport. 

Norwood Memorial Airport, the airport fee and pissed off neighbors plan to satisfy on Wednesday, February 15 to debate their issues and attainable options.