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Why are there so many street lights in the Birchcliff neighborhood? The area is brighter at night than Church St. At this corner, for instance, there are two street lights a few feet away from each other - one shining on Cherry and one on Alder. How can we reduce the #, height, brightness of street lights in the area? are all the lights converted to LEDs? Let's save some energy and the night sky!
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13 Comments
Sam Donalds (Registered User)
Gigi Weisman (Registered User)
Acknowledged Jamie Cortez - BED,Chief of Field Services (Verified Official)
MikTheFish (Registered User)
CB-BF (Registered User)
Closed Cathy Chamberlain, BED Operations Administrator (Verified Official)
Reopened BurlingtonVTRegisteredReporter (Registered User)
Acknowledged Cathy Chamberlain, BED Operations Administrator (Verified Official)
Thank you
jkc (Registered User)
There are many things that can be done. The issue of bright led street lights disturbing and negatively effecting human health is a major issue causing controversy all over America and Europe right now.
Many cities are learning how to better mitigate the damage of LED street lights and improving them.
Unfortunately, the implementation of supposedly sustainable, energy-efficient LED technology for climate change mitigation can have very unsustainable, ecologically unfriendly side effects on flora, fauna and humans, and ultimately on biodiversity.
Luckily, there are very easy steps that can be taken to reduce the harmful impact. I encourage any interested party and/or key stakeholder to explore some of them.
https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighting/lighting-for-citizens/led-guide/
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/21/6160/htm
MikTheFish (Registered User)
Gigi Weisman (Registered User)
Cathy Chamberlain, BED Operations Administrator (Verified Official)
To address your question of LED's, please know that in the Birchcliff Neighborhood there are only 9 LED lights in all and they are on Linden Terrace. All of the other lights are 100W High Pressure Sodium and Metal Halide.
MikTheFish: We do not turn off street lights at random. We are required to light the streets of Burlington to adhere to strict IES (Illuminating Engineering Standards). Currently the Birchcliff area meets those standards. If we conduct a new study, it would most likely result in changing all of the lights out to LED's which I think would make things worse.
Gigi: We do not turn off street lights randomly. That is not allowed and if we did allow it, we would be open ourselves to huge lawsuits if an accident occurred. The neighborhood you were referring to must not be in Burlington.
Our Street Lighting Engineer has all of your comments and is putting together some very important information for you all. I will post it here as soon as he has completed it.
Thank you all and stay safe!
Cathy Chamberlain, BED Operations Administrator (Verified Official)
Our engineering Dept. is working on your concerns with regard to your lighting in the Birchcliff neighborhood. In the meantime our Street Lighting Engineer has put together answers to all of your questions. It is too long to put here so if you would like to receive this information, please send your email address to me at cchamberlain@burlingtonelectric.com and I'll be happy to send the document to you.
Thank you for your patience.
Cathy