jwblue said:
What are some good airport area condominiums to look into. Any to avoid? Any new complexes on the time horizon?
https://www.minnpost.com/second-opi...-been-seriously-underestimated-study-suggests
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world in terms of "movement" (flights), and the third busiest in North America, behind the Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the O?Hare International Airport in Chicago, according to the Airports Council International. (The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport is ranked 11th in North America and 16th in the world.)
The scientists found that over a 23-square-mile area ? an area that starts at the ends of LAX?s four runways and then fans out east for more than 10 miles downwind of the airport ? particle-matter concentrations were double what they were in nearby areas outside the area of LAX impact.
They also found that the concentrations were five times higher over a 9-square-mile section of the impact area, and within an almost 2-mile area just east of the airport, the particle-matter pollutants reached concentrations that were 10 times higher than in the non-impact areas.
?The consistent and distinctive spatial pattern of elevated concentrations was aligned to prevailing westerly winds and landing jet trajectories, and roughly followed the shape of the contours of noise from landing jets,? the study?s authors note, ?indicating that landing jets probably are an important contributor to the large downwind spatial extent of elevation [particle matter] concentrations.?
The authors also calculated that the amount of pollutants produced by LAX is equivalent to the particle-matter pollution of 174 to 491 miles of freeway. To put that number in context, the total number of freeway miles in Los Angeles County, where LAX is located, is about 930.
?Therefore,? the scientists conclude, ?LAX should be considered one of the most important sources of [particle matter] pollution in Los Angeles.?