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- CBS News
Flight patterns change at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Colorado, bringing new complaints
Last year, the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, Colorado, had record takeoffs and landings with a total of 294,000 flights. That averages up to 33 flights an hour. That volume of flights has also landed some complaints and lawsuits that are ongoing. But a new flight pattern has a different community lodging complaints against Colorado's third-busiest airport. CBS Colorado has reported extensively in the past about efforts from people in Superior to limit the flights over their homes. Now, new neighbors in parts of Louisville and the Spanish Hills area are finding the skies less than friendly. "This chopping sound. It's, it's like, worse than a lawnmower right outside your window," Louisville resident Gary Mansdorfer said. "It's chop, chop, chop. And it goes kind of through your body," Louisville resident Janice Whitaker said. One of her neighbors, Marty Reibold, said, "It's constant, it's every couple of minutes, another one goes over." Mansdorfer just moved back into the neighborhood after losing his home in the Marshall Fire. He explained, "We didn't move in next to an airport, and we may not have rebuilt this house for the last year and a half had we known it was going to be like this." And while the City of Louisville neighbors the Broomfield airport, the planes didn't fly this way before, only coming over their homes after flight paths changed this summer. "The people of Superior, I knew that was going on, and I felt sorry for them, but I never expected them to push it over to our neighborhood, like, get out of here, go someplace else," Whitaker said. CBS Colorado Your Reporter in Broomfield Sarah Horbacewicz asked the Airport Director, Erick Dahl, "What can you do?" To which Dahl said, "We don't control the flight paths. We don't control operations in and out of the airport. We don't really control operations on it. And so what we're trying to figure out is how we can take people's frustrations or their voices and their concerns." And on Wednesday, addressing those concerns came in the form of a town hall at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. Pilots and concerned neighbors showed up, but the FAA did not. Dahl explained that his last guidance from the FAA about flight paths came from a community round table that disbanded more than a year ago. "What the FAA told us then was that they don't make flight path changes without hearing from the community first, in this case, took us by surprise. We were not asked. The airport was not consulted about changes to the airspace," Dahl said. But if you call the FAA, their voicemail for noise complaints encourages callers to contact their local airport instead. "I don't know who to talk to. That's part of the frustration: who is really accountable?" Mansdorfer said. When asked if the new patterns would stay and for how long, Dahl said, "I don't have an answer." At the town hall on Wednesday, RMMA staff also encouraged the public to share their concerns in a letter to the FAA. In the meantime, Dahl says the airport has asked pilots this year to try and follow curfews and limit touch-and-gos, but according to federal regulations, all of that has to be voluntary.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Yahoo
For the first time in over a century, sockeye salmon are able to return to Okanagan Lake
Sockeye salmon are able to return to historic spawning grounds in B.C.'s Okanagan region for the first time in over a century, thanks to a new fish passageway built by the Syilx Nation in partnership with the City of Penticton, the province and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). The Okanagan Dam Fish Passage bypasses a dam in Okanagan Lake, and according to the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA), will allow steelhead, rainbow trout and sockeye, chinook and kokanee salmon to migrate back into the lake and its tributaries through the Columbia River. Funding for the project was provided under the Habitat Conservation Plan, part of a broader strategy tied to the Priest Rapids hydroelectric project in Washington State that allocates funds for salmon and steelhead habitat restoration. According to the Pacific Salmon Commission, sockeye salmon spawn from August to late October, and Sylix members are expecting the first migration of salmon into the territory within weeks. The salmon will migrate from the Pacific Ocean to Okanagan Lake through the Columbia River — the largest river in the Pacific Northwest — which flows through B.C., Washington state and Oregon. The fish will pass through nine different hydroelectric dams on their way to Sylix territory. ONA, a First Nations tribal council in B.C. made up of seven First Nations whose territory spans from north of Revelstoke into Washington state, was established in 1981 to restore Sylix traditions, culture and governance and says it has been leading fish restoration projects since its inception. During the opening ceremony for the passageway on Aug. 18, Penticton Indian Band Chief Greg Gabriel told media that "our salmon came through from the states up to the north and for thousands of years we had fishing camps [across borders]." "Today, we are going to open up this waterway to create a passage for our salmon to continue on with their journey as they did thousands of years ago." Zoe Eyjolfson, ONA salmon passage project lead, said at least three dams were built in the Okanagan watershed starting in 1914, causing major habitat loss. "Salmon were at the brink of extinction," she said. WATCH | Sockeye salmon return to B.C.'s Okanagan Lake: Eyjolfson says the cool Okanagan waters will provide a refuge for salmon to start rebuilding their populations. According to the ONA website, salmon — or ntytyix — are sacred to the Syilx people. "They are considered relatives, not resources, and their return marks a powerful act of environmental and cultural healing." Leon Louis, an elder from Lower Similkameen Indian Band, said salmon that return to the Okanagan will "feed the people, all people, not just mine. That's how important salmon is." Eyjolfson described seeing the passageway open as a rewarding and proud moment. "For myself, to know that my kids will see many future generations of salmon coming back to their historic waters, it's a very special day.".
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
Halifax homeless encampment near new seniors' facility ordered to close
Steve Falshaw woke up to an eviction notice on his grey tent in Cogswell Park in Halifax on Wednesday morning. The municipality has closed the designated encampment in the small green space that runs along Windsor Street near Quinpool Road, giving the roughly nine people living there about a month to leave. Halifax said the site must be cleared out because it's too close to a new seniors' facility that has opened. "It's a pretty lousy thing to do, actually. They've got nowhere to put us," said Falshaw, who added he is dealing with cancer and other health conditions. The site was designated in July 2024 as a homeless encampment managed by the city with portable toilets and garbage pickup. It had an original capacity of eight tents, but that grew to about 16 tents at some points. Max Chauvin, Halifax's director of housing and homelessness, said municipal policy states that designated encampments cannot be within 50 metres of the entrance to a seniors' care facility. He said the new Shannex building, called Parkland on the Common, has a door that is about 20 metres from the site. Chauvin said outreach workers will now meet with everyone at Cogswell Park to find them a place to go next, and help them move if needed. He said there are open spaces in multiple indoor shelters, or temporary housing options run by the province. "People do have some choice, which is something that didn't happen in some previous incidences — the options were more limited," Chauvin said Wednesday. Falshaw said he's been sleeping rough for the past three years and has tried a few of the temporary housing options, but they were not a good fit and he was usually asked to leave. Resorting to living in a public park in a rich country like Canada "is an absolute heartbreaking shame," he said. "Why are we even outside? Why do we even have to do this?" said Falshaw, who doesn't know where he'll go next. Virginia Hinch, councillor for the area, had asked for staff to explore the process of closing the Cogswell Park site in early July following ongoing safety concerns from nearby residents. Karla Nicholson, executive director of Quinpool Road Mainstreet District Association, said residents and businesses have told her about an increase in thefts since the site was designated. She said there have been reports of fires and violence at the site. "I think the residents have suffered enough in this area, and it is very close proximity to their homes," Nicholson said Wednesday. While the site was officially designated last year, Nicholson said people have sheltered in tents there since about 2020. The Quinpool business association has put "a lot of work" into the park, including new lights and a raised wooden boardwalk, said Nicholson. "We're hoping to take back the park, and make it a place where everyone can enjoy," she said. The three remaining designated encampment sites around Halifax and Dartmouth are over capacity, but Chauvin said there are a few spots at those sites where people could fit tents if necessary. "Considering the breadth of options and the different supports that are available … I'm really hoping that everybody can find an indoor option," Chauvin said. Chauvin said there are fewer than 100 people sleeping rough in Halifax. The city counted about 75 tents and four trailers in the municipality's designated locations as of last week. The by-name list tracking people dealing with homelessness in Halifax showed 972 people or families in need of housing as of Aug. 13. The list, maintained by the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, said 642 of those people were experiencing "chronic" homelessness. That term refers to people seeing persistent or long-term homelessness, which brings "greater risks of harm and difficulty accessing stable housing" according to the federal government. MORE TOP STORIES
