Board of Health and the Alternative Energy Committee

The Board of Health has sent a letter to the Alternative Energy Committee and Select Board. This letter was read and discussed at the last Select Board meeting.
I have posted the Board of Health letter to the web and you can read it here. As is typical with the town, I received the letter on paper and do not have an electronic file copy (Yes, that is meant as a criticism of how the town operates). I scanned the document using OCR and that is the reason for the odd format.
Dr. Dipippo, chair of the Alternative Energy Committee, has responded to the Board of Health and I posted his letter here. Dr. Dipippo did send his as an electronic file and I have converted it to an HMTL document.
Ms. Henderson raises concerns about noise and shadow/flicker and Dr. DiPippo answers that those are considered during the permitting process in accordance with the bylaw.
On a related note, Dr DiPippo has sent me ...


...the following email about the permit preparation process.

Subject: Balloon Photo-Simulation Tests

Hi folks,

Atlantic Design Engineers is hoping to conduct their balloon tests for the photosimulations next week on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (June 30, July 1,2). They need some sunshine (a rare commodity recently) and little wind. Early morning seems to be the best time from their experience.
Simon Thomas will send an e-mail alert the day or evening before the day of the test using this e-mailing list. He wants to have a conference call with Dave Hickox, Mike O'Reilly and me prior to the test to make all necessary arrangements for site access.
They will float two balloons, one at each site to the full 100 m plus blade height, and calculate where the 80 m plus blade height would be. We have designated about a dozen vantage points surrounding the sites.
In keeping with our full disclosure policy, I would like to notify the residents about the test via our new web site (Mike Courville), as soon as we know when they will be conducted. It might be short notice, but it will the same as we all will have.
So let's hope for sun and no wind at least one of those days next week.
Regarding the shadow/flicker simulations, the computer work is on-going and should be ready next week.
BTW, the National Geographic Channel ran a very interesting program last Thursday (18th) at 9 PM on the World's Toughest Fixes. They showed the process of putting up the Portsmouth HS turbine. Unbelievable footage in HD! Worth tracking it down with On Demand. (my note watch it at the Portsmouth webite, BT)

Regards,

Ron