noise

amenity · noise

This is not the first time, far from it but, I'm awake and it's 3.24am and since I went to bed I've heard it reverberating through this house, I cannot sleep. What is it (I've left out the expletive) it must surely come from outside, so, I open the bathroom window and sure enough the cacophony gets worse and the pentrating assualting noise emanates from Felixstowe dock.

ivan burit

While i can only feel sorry for your noise pollution, think what the residents of brightlinsea must feel like, when the scrap metal export firm fills the waiting ship with scrap metal..
They have asked to be able to run the business on a 24 hour period........

As an ex-night worker whose factory environment run 24/7 - 7 days a week non-stop, in the areospace component manufacture, where the space age alloys were of the most difficault of all materials to machine, the resulting scream of the metals being machined, and the machines themselves screaming back, made the lives of not just the workers, but the local residents lives a misery.........
The bad news was the Company went into insolvency 4 years ago, the good news the building now sells new Jaguar / range-rover cars..............
ALL the local residents are happier too, as it only sells during the day......
I`m happy, i retired then 4 years ago........
I cannot say how "airbuss" and "rolls-royce aerospace" feel about losing one of their "prefured major subcontracting manufactorers"..fell about it though........

amenity

The most noise, that is the loudest to be heard from Felixstowe is the sound of containers hitting the side of the ship, this arrives here at 57 58 decibels against a general hubub of about 54 decibels.

Containers are also dropped fron height this is also very noisy, I have seen photos of banana shaped containers.

The penetrating whine comes from engines within the ship when alongside, thinking this would be from old ships and engines that are worn was disproved when the inspector at the inquiry asked for an offending ships details, the ship turned out to be only 18 months old.

There are new regulations coming into force that might help in this direction, whether they are retrospective we don't know yet.

Some of these ships have enough power to supply a town the size of Southampton, and oil consumption of 120 tons per day, some even use 6 tons per day when tied up.

As you have inferred such industry should not be close to bedrooms.

We are often reminded that ports were in the past thought to be very desirable for the benifit of work they used to bring and people did not mind living near them. Of course in the days of sail ships were fairly quite , things should be brought up to date.
How many port managers live near their work, really near say within half a mile?
Thousands of people do in Harwich and Parkeston.

ivan burit

Good points raised my friend........
As i have just had a light bulb - light up in me brain..(dont happen often) i was thinking about all the car manufactoring plants that have shut down of late in the UK..
Dagenham is just one......Catastrophic to local economy at the time, but peace and quiet for the first time in years at night, or so i`d like to think, but dagenham never really is peacefull............

amenity

Just for the record tonight at 8pm sound pressure levels of 52 decibels with spikes up to and exceeding 60 decibles.
behind this cacophony a continous stream of high pitched hum.

ivan burit

Although the name of a Film..White Noise, is a most brain knumbing kind of noise, it sometimes is not that loud, but eats away at your head without you really knowing untill you have a nasty head ache or worse...........
Now you know why i live next to a beach, with no real time noise pollution, except some over enthusiastic holiday makers from the camp 1/4 mile away, on accasion..

Nikadi

pepsi

Nikadi

I know, I didn't think about that generally as the ones I've seen have not really been up close. Where is Earls Hall by the way? We need alternative energy sources, but the council have never been good at building up decent plans as to where to put things have they? -_-

pepsi

The Earls Hall development will be at the top of Constable Avenue and Little Clacton road and a good portion of the residents in Bockings Elm will be within .5 miles of these five turbines.

This is not a suitable place to put them, in addition they will be between 2 ancient woodlands and in the path of our main Owl population so there is a good chance that some of our rarer birds will also be killed by the Turbines, check out how many Cranes are killed by Wind Turbines in Spain when they migrate to their summer/winter living places.

Nikadi