Working to reclaim the livability
of our homes and neighborhoods
Injurious Noise
“Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.”
– US Surgeon General William H. Stewart, 1978
Residents in Montgomery County and the Washington, DC region are suffering from the health problems caused by airplane highways overhead. The constant noise affects people in communities as far as 25 miles from Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
Our Mission
The Montgomery County Quiet Skies Coalition was established to mitigate the severe aircraft noise pollution harming households that live under the flight path of Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
The coalition works with government officials to ameliorate the problems at DCA and is joining forces with advocacy groups across the nation that are fighting to fix the harmful mismanagement of the airspace over our homes, schools, parks and places of worship.
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What You Can Do
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Your immediate action is requested to comment on the FAA’s proposed nationwide framework to approve drone package delivery operations through a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA). Our friends at Aviation-Impacted Community Alliances (AICA) have alerted us to the fact that this proposal sets us up for a repeat of the NextGen process. NextGen is responsible for the significant noise increases in our community and which MCQSC has spent years trying to reduce. If finalized, this framework would allow drone delivery hubs, flight routes and corridors, and operational expansions to proceed across communities without a requirement for separate, location-specific environmental review or public notice. Commenting is easy and may only take a few minutes. Comments are due by January 23rd.