Part 150 Noise Study Workshops!

The Port of Seattle is holding three workshops this week to explain their latest Part 150 Study. In short, ‘Part 150’ refers to an FAA program the airport engages in every decade or so to measure community noise levels. They happen roughly once a decade. The last one was in 2013.

Long story short: These studies set the noise boundary area around the airport known as the DNL65. If you live inside the DNL65 you are eligible for mitigations such as sound insulation. If you’re outside it? You’re not. And you’re stuck with that decision until the next Part 150.

In fact, in the 2013 version, the noise boundary actually shrank—making even fewer people eligible for sound insulation just as airport operations were experiencing double-digit growth! If we do not show up this time, and make our concerns known, it could shrink again! This is our chance to right this wrong.

SO: Whether or not you are currently eligible for sound insulation, or if you have a Port Package and are in need of an update, you need to attend one of these workshops!

How to attend

Anyone needing language interpretation, special accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act can contact the Noise Programs office at 206-787-5393 or P150@portseattle.org Food and childcare will be provided.