The dispute over lead and noise has been most pronounced around Rocky Mountain and Centennial airports, which together have more than a half million annual landings and takeoffs.
Charlene Willey watches a plane fly over her home in Westminster on Monday, June 26, 2023. Willey, who built the home with her late husband in 1994, said that as the area has grown so has the amount of traffic at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. But as the governor was putting pen to paper, an airplane’s engine buzzed overhead — an irony that prompted laughter in the crowd attending the bill signing at Wildflower Park in Superior.
Fenberg was accompanied by two other bill sponsors, Reps. Shannon Bird and Kyle Brown, for the signing. The bill, which went into effect immediately Friday, sets aside $1.5 million annually from the state aviation fund to help airports transition to unleaded aviation gas. It also requires airports accepting grant money to work with pilots to craft a plan to reduce noise from flights.
“Because I see this as a public health issue, they aren’t doing it fast enough,” Willey said. “I would have liked to have seen mandatory noise abatement policies.” Nathan Winger, using the website FlightAware, is able to track the activity of planes coming in and out of Centennial airport from his home in Greenwood Village on June 28, 2023. The Wingers said their house had become ground-zero for plane noise as many of the flight school planes made continuous and circular flights directly overhead.
Audra Dubler, who lives near Centennial Airport, said she was glad her and her neighbors’ voices were finally being heard.
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