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Airport Noise Report, Vol. 34 No. 33: Port Of Seattle sued over public health study records; AICA urges REDAC to support six noise research proposals; Eviation Alice first flight

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A Seattle attorney sued the Port of Seattle in September 2022 to force disclosure of a fully redacted consultant report examining public health impacts—including noise, air pollution, and higher rates of disease—on communities within 10 miles of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Separately, the Aviation-Impacted Communities Alliance urged a federal advisory committee to support six research proposals challenging the FAA's longstanding 65 DNL noise threshold, which new survey data suggests dramatically understates the number of people harmed by aircraft noise. The issue also covers the first successful test flight of Eviation's all-electric nine-passenger Alice aircraft in Moses Lake, Washington.

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Airport Noise Report (Volume 34, Number 33, October 7, 2022) covers three stories: (1) Edmiston v. Port of Seattle, King County Superior Court Case No. 22-2-15797-6 SEA, filed Sept. 29 by attorney Steve Edmiston of Des Moines, WA, seeking unredacted disclosure under Washington public records law of the 28-page Ramboll Group consultant report on the 2020 Public Health Seattle-King County report on Community Health and Airport Operations Related Noise and Air Pollution; Port invoked deliberative process exemption citing the Sustainable Airport Master Plan environmental review. (2) Aviation-Impacted Communities Alliance (AICA) co-founders Cindy L. Christiansen and Darlene Yaplee urge FAA’s Research, Engineering & Development Advisory Committee (REDAC) on Oct. 5 to fund six aircraft noise research proposals involving NES data, DNL65 threshold validity, DNL46, N-Above, T-Above, AEDT accuracy, Performance Based Navigation (PBN)/NextGen, and National Academies consensus reports; AICA represents 67 grassroots groups. (3) Eviation Aircraft’s nine-passenger all-electric Alice completes first flight Sept. 27 at Grant County International Airport (MWH), Moses Lake, WA.

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