Health by Brendan O’Malley
Premium Content Fancy an alarm clock, hair dryer or coffee grinder going off from 6am, multiple times a day, every day? That is the level of noise experienced in many suburbs since new flight paths came into effect following the opening of Brisbane s second runway last July. Airservices Australia s online Webtrak site shows noise levels have shot up at a dozen monitoring sites from Nudgee in the east, to Bardon in the west and south as far as Salisbury. Webtrak showed some of the stations routinely record noise levels above 70 decibels (dB) in the morning on April 20, for example - equivalent to a washing machine.
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