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Arlington, Montgomery County to formalize deal on airport-noise study


“The Arlington, County Board plans to ante up half the projected cost for a consultant, with the Montgomery County Council putting up the other half. The agreement will ratify a less formal arrangement between the two jurisdictions that has been in effect since last summer.”
“At issue is the new flight routing implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2014 as part of its Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The routing continues to take aircraft departing northbound up the Potomac River past Bethesda to the east and McLean to the west. Yet unlike previous route patterns, which diffused aircraft across a wider expanse of terrain, NextGen concentrates the aircraft over tighter corridors as they ascend to reach cruising altitude.”
“Arlington government officials plan to formalize their agreement with leaders in Montgomery County, Md., to fund a study on the northerly aircraft departure route out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.”
“Areas of Montgomery County are most impacted, but the new corridor has “had a significant and worsening impact on the quality of life of Arlington residents,” a county official writes, without elaboration, in a memo to County Board members.”
Arlington, Montgomery County to formalize deal on airport-noise study, 

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