Comment EI-32225
Received or sent (printed as 9/20/2022)
My house sits in the city of Riverdale,Iowa. Now we have 8 trains a day. With the merger, we will have 22. Thia will be a disaster for everyone that lives there.The train stops and land locks the people who live on the other side of the track. The trains are going to be100 cars or more. This will cover alot of the crossings and our emergency vehicles will not be able to help thoses medically in need. The children will not be able to get to there buses for school. The Canadian pacific has a very poor record. They derail or spill often. We live very close to the Mississippi, our duck creek empty's into it. If they would derail, which they do, it would cause an ecological disaster. There is an eagle sanctuary one block to the south of the tracks on Arconics land. The constant high pitch sound will interfere with there migration patterns and nesting. The sound levels are deplorable. The horn of the train and wheels range between 96 and 110 decibels. Hearing loss begins at 70 decibels. 86 decibels increases it rapidly, and 120 is complete hearing loss. When the train stops,it blocks Arconic .The workers can't get into the factory and they back up onto state( HIGHWAY 67). They block the entrance to Kensington st and the school bus cannot get down the street to get the children, nor can get out to take them to school. There is another rail line that can be used and if anything happens will not effect a lot of people. Run the train through Muscatine to Dubuque. It will travel through lower populated areas. To finish ,if this merger goes through, people will die from it and become deaf. We have been hear for 40 years and we both experience decreased hearing from the train horn and wheels. Canadian Pacific have been very poor neighbors. Only once has the company come to take care of its property in 40 years.
Submitted by: Beth Anne Halsey · Riverdale, 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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