Breaktime is Over.

To be fair, we decided to step away from the blog to give the folks at Maola ample time to come up with a solution to help the Riverside Community, which is suffering from noise pollution. Also, it might be good to mention that we have comments set for approval because we were getting slanderous messages and while we encourage speaking your mind, we ask that this forum be used as a place to come and find out the latest information and a place to add valid points and concerns.

Where do we stand? It will be a week tomorrow that everyone met down at the church. What has been done since last Monday to alleviate the aggravation and noise pollution?
Firstly, the Maola officials took care of the employee noise issues and parking issues.
In that meeting, Maola mentioned a fan that they were going to try and use to suck the cold air onto the trucks, rather than using those horribly loud cooling systems. The fan didn’t work.
Maola also mentioned that they were going to move some empty trucks to create a “temporary buffer”. They moved three trucks that are parallel to N. Pasteur St. It is creating a minor buffer on the lower level of our homes. If you go upstairs, the noise is unbearable, still.
They have put up black plastic on the fence – we’re not sure if it was just so we couldn’t look in, we hope that they weren’t thinking that plastic would stop the noise.

Noise levels are still registering in the mid 60’s which is totally unacceptable. We want to see a noise ordinance in place. This is the only way to hold anyone accountable.

We also would like a time line for a resolution. This is not a ridiculous request. We have been forced to deal with this noise for a over a month now.

There will be a meeting with city officials, the Riverside representatives, and Maola this week and we will post the findings of that meeting.

Tomorrow, look for more pictures and videos.

~ by maolamayhem on June 10, 2007.