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phone 856-234-5800 • fax 856-234-9539 e-mail boyell@ieee.org • Web site http://www.boyell.com/ 2006 October 09 Ms. Linda W. Saparoff Re: Telecommunication Facility on Barton Mountain, Addendum 1 Dear Ms. Saparoff: This is an Addendum to my previous report dated 2005 March 07. In that report I recommended that the applicant locate his wireless antenna site(s) closer to the intended coverage area of I-91 and Route 5, and avoid the scattered coverage that would be provided by a prospective new "Telecommunication Facility Off of Chamberlin Road" which the applicant proposes to locate on Barton Mountain. A statement of my technical qualifications was enclosed with my previous report. Now I understand that the Burton Hill Farm silo off Burton Hill Road is available, and is in fact already being used, for wireless telecommunication purposes. My review of the applicant's coverage plot for that site along with consideration of topography, road alignments, and population distribution, indicates that the Burton Hill Farm silo will likely meet the recommendation of my previous report and thus will be preferable to the Barton Mountain site. From an antenna complex on the Burton Hill Farm silo, wireless telephone coverage will be solid along I-91 and Route 5 between Barton village and Orleans village, thus contributing to the applicant's objective "to provide continuous coverage on the I-91 corridor". This is in contrast with the Barton Mountain site which would have afforded only spotty coverage along that route. The Burton Hill Farm silo site will also cover Barton village, specifically the triangle of Main Street, Church Street, and Elm Street. By contrast, the Barton Mountain site would have failed to provide service to much of Barton village, because the intervening topography obstructs the radio signals. The Burton Hill Farm silo is an easily accessible, free-standing structure, generally surrounded by farmland. It is an accepted landscape feature, indicated on topographic maps since 1986, to which additional wireless telecommunication antennas can applied with little visual or physical impact. By contrast, the Barton Mountain site would require road grading, land clearing, and entirely new tower construction in a heavily forested area. Therefore for technical reasons of communication coverage from the prospective wireless antenna site, supported by esthetic considerations of intrusiveness to the community, the Burton Hill Farm silo should be selected over Barton Mountain. Sincerely, Roger L. Boyell, PE |
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