Somerset County: Now Hear This!

Some Locations, Sources, and/or Reports
that have (are recommending, or are considering)
1± Mile (1500± m) Setbacks from Wind Turbines

1. 10,000 m (6.2 miles) exclusion zone recommended (page 90 of this Scottish report).
2. 10,000 m called for by a prominent physician (with many references: 2011).
3. 5,000 m (3.1 miles). This French study concluded “wind turbines must not be sited less than 5 km from all habitation, because of the risks produced by infrasound.”
4. 3,219 m (2 miles): to properly address infrasound. This is found in an outstanding study done by the town of Heath, Massachusetts (2013)
5. 3,219 m to a rural home – Umatilla County, Oregon (2011)
6. 3,219 m from a residential development - Riverside, California
7. 3,000 m for turbines taller than 150 m – Wiltshire, UK (2012)
8. 3,000 m proposed as national standard in Poland (2014)
9. 2,600 m (1.6 miles) going from 2000 m: examining increasing the recommended distance between wind farms and the nearest town or village: Scotland (2013)
10. 2,414 m (1.5 miles) from property lines – Catarunk, Maine (2011)
11. 2,414 m – Moscow, Maine (2011)
12. 2,414 m - recommendation of Dr. Amanda Harry (British physician) (2007)
13. 2,253 m (1.4 miles) Planning Minister: Wind turbines should not be less than 1.4 miles from people’s homes (Lincolnshire, UK: 2012)
14. 2,100 m for 3MW recommended in Denmark (2011)
15. 2,010 m (1.25 miles) recommended by this European Human Rights study
16. 2,010 m – Woodstock, Maine (2013). 
17. 2,000 m advised by Noise & Health Journal study: “setback distances need to be greater than 2 km in hilly terrain”.
18. 2,000 m – Retexo (a wind energy consultant) advisory (2014)
19. 2,000 m – by Director of Finland’s Ministry of Health (2014)
20. 2,000 m from the nearest residence – Haut-Richelieu, Quebec (2012)
21. 2,000 m from a home and 1 km of a road in the Haut-Saint-Laurent, in the Montérégie, Quebec (2013)
22. 2,000 m to habitations, and 5,000 m from 21 named agglomerations – Victorian Government, Australia
23. 2,000 m from existing homes proposed in New South Wales, Australia (2011)
24. 2,000 m – Queensland, Australia (2011)
25. 2,000 m restriction: Cambridgeshire, UK (2013)
26. 2,000 m away from housing in Scotland (2013)
27. 2,000 m turbine setback bill debated by British House of Lords (2011)
28. 2,000 m turbine setback advocated by Party of Wales/ Plaid Cymru (2010)
29. 1,950 m (13 times the turbine height) - Montville, Maine (2009)
30. 1,950 m (13 times the turbine height) - Buckfield, Maine (2010)
31. 1,900 m was the distance that this scientific study found that residents still “expressed annoyance.” (2003)
32. 1,770 m - Fayette County, Pennsylvania (2008)
33. 1,609 m (1 mile) from non-participating property lines - Sumner, Maine (2013)
34. 1,609 m from inhabited structures - Trempealeau County, Wisc. (2007)
35. 1,609 m from non-participating property lines - Frankfort, Maine (2011)
36. 1,609 m buffer zone to homes - Hillsdale County, Michigan (2011)
37. 1,609 m from the nearest existing residence, school, church, hospital, place of employment or public library - Madison County, Idaho (2011)
38. 1,609 m from non-participating property lines - Carteret County, NC (2014)
39. 1,609 m buffer recommended - Acoustical Society of America (2010)
40. 1,609 m (1 to 1.5 mile) - UK Noise Association (2006)
41. 1,524 m from non-participating property lines - Town of Newport, NC (2014) 
42. 1,500 m in an environment characterized by a 35 DB ambient noise level Germany
43. 1,500 m for a 150 m turbine (10x height) - The little Isle of Anglesey, UK (2012)
44. 1,500 m for a 150 m turbine (10x height) - Ellis County, Kansas (2009)
45. 1,500 m Acoustical Ecology Institute Special Report on Wind Energy Noise Impacts (pp 3-4) (2009)
46. 1,500 m recommended by French National Academy of Medicine (2006)
47. 1,500 m recommended by North Carolina State Health Director (2012)
48. 1,500 m larger buffer zones needed in Wales (2012)
49. 1,500 m sleep expert warns of effects of wind turbines (2012)

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