Comment EI-32144
Received or sent (printed as 8/20/2022)
Hello, I have lived in my present residence for 21 years. At times, train horns are inaudible and at other times the trains sound like they are roaring right down our street (depending on atmospheric conditions). The noise pollution is most alarming at night while trying to sleep. After being woken by loud train horns, it is difficult to get back to sleep. I contacted our city council and mayor years ago only to be shut down by the city administrator telling me to stop bothering the city council with this concern and that it was too expensive to set-up quiet zones. My reaction was to ask, what is the city council in existence to do other than to address constituent concerns. Now we are looking at the possibility of tripling the number of trains passing through our Iowa Quad Cities every day. This will not only increase the noise but will put our water treatment facility at risk due to trains traveling right along side it. Any derailment could result in eliminating the water source for hundreds of thousands of people. The trains will also affect the use of our riverfront, where many events are held throughout the year. Riverfront music festivals will be interrupted every time a train passes. Based on the map, it appears the Quad Cities will be affected by this acquisition more than any other community in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It is not right that our lives will be interrupted by this additional pollution and danger. Please reject this proposed acquisition. Thanks, Brian
Submitted by: Brian Trentz · Bettendorf, IA
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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