The Town Council — which vowed last month to put a stricter cap on commercial wind turbine noise levels, currently set at 50 decibels — plans to get some first-hand experience with the issue soon.
“The board members want to get a handle on what 50 decibels is. I want to hear 30-, 40-, 50-decibel sounds inside a room, outside in the open and from 15 feet away in a house,” Councilman Christopher D. Matthews said.
The plan is to first have acoustic experts help the council understand how loud various sound levels are in different settings locally and then schedule a field trip to Iberdrola Renewables’ Hardscrabble Wind Farm in Herkimer County.
Supervisor Justin A. Taylor said the council chose Hardscrabble over Maple Ridge Wind Farm in Lewis County because the turbine heights, blade configurations and specs of the Herkimer County project are similar to those in the suspended application for the Horse Creek Wind Farm in Clayton.
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