The Cohocton town board passed a local law Monday setting maximum decibel levels for residential windmills.
Councilman Wayne Hunt said Tuesday the law establishes 50 decibels as the maximum level on the lines of properties with windmills. The decibel level can’t exceed 45 decibels at the closest dwellings.
The law relates only to residential windmills, which can reach a maximum height of 150 feet. The larger industrial turbines can exceed 400 feet.
Studies showed the decibel levels at the residential windmills in the town to be close to 50 decibels already, said Hunt. If the boards had lowered the legal decibel level, it would not have impacted the three residential windmills already constructed.
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