This week we received a certified letter stating that a telecommunications facility and three cellular towers are proposed to go up on 5 acre parcel behind our house. Three towers on a hill in our backyard and we will likely see the tips of them. All three well within 400 meters from home. Below is a letter I just sent to a couple local newspapers and local news stations. No responses thus far.

We Just received a certified letter on 4/10/23 from a company called CSAI notifying us of a that Verizon Wireless is planning to lease property at 1615 Cedar Valley Lane here in Colorado Springs. The proposed plan is to install on this 5 acre parcel a telecommunications facility and three cellular towers. These towers will be on the hill in back of our house and will be within a hundred feet of our kid’s fort and within 400 feet of our home.
We have 4 and 7 year old daughters and we are very scared, concerned and upset about this proposed project. Our concerns our for the known and unknown health impacts of living in close proximity to these towers. We are also concerned about home properties being devaluated, noise impacts, fire risk, impacts on wildlife, erosion issues and many other concerns.

We are not politicians. I’m a physician assistant who works in three local emergency departments. My wife is a speech pathologist working in the school district here in town. I have spent the last 21 years of my career caring for patients and educating people on how to stay healthy. We live a healthy life style. We feed our kids organic fruits and vegetables. We drink filtered water. We moved to Colorado Springs form the healthy lifestyle and clean air. We now receive this letter which negates all our efforts and will essentially force us to move if these towers go up. Our neighbors have expressed the same. So this will lead to a huge financial loss on our part. Forced to moved into a home and having to pay higher interest rates, paying capital gains, selling our property for a loss and I could go on. Not happy.

We now have to take time away from our family to get petitions, seek City Councilman support, going to public hearings, get media involved, figure out ways to utilize social media. All to try to stop a project from occurring in a residential community. This should not be allowed. I can understand if this was in an industrial area or one of the other hills in the area that doesn’t have homes in the vicinity. Whether my kids are in the house or outside playing they will be exposed to the radio frequencies emitted by these towers.

I’m writing this to you in hopes of giving you a heads up on this project. Also in hopes that you can help create awareness in our community.

What can i do to protect myself and my family as i can not afford anti-radiation gear?

It can be buggy sometimes, but the site I use is https://www.antennasearch.com/

At least you are informed enough to make such decisions and know to avoid such situations. Most people aren’t 🙁

It has a cell tower with several (like 17) total antennae, most of them obviously of the size and form to be cell tower antennae.

For the interest of it I called the person listed in the job post as the contact person for more info about the job. Emailing and asking if the building was shielded resulted in being ignored and never contacted back.

So there’s no way I would ever apply for that job.

This shows the Department of Natural Resources level of integrity and courage in this state and in that office building. They haven’t cared about their employees, they don’t want to upset the elected, appointed, or hired superiors, are cowards in a difficult situation, and the state is sooner or later in deep in terms of liability for that location and probably everywhere else it has office buildings.

There was a job I considered just today, a craft/hobby store moved to a new location in an old K-Mart building. First looking at the adjacent office building with about 6 obvious cell tower antennae on every corner of it and some more on top, I ruled that job out. Driving around the corner to the front of the old K-Mart building, there was an ambulance there parked at the entrance.

“So much for that job,” and “you really would need that employer’s ‘health insurance’ working there. By the way, the antennae studded building used to have an engineering firm in it, that moved after several years. That place had some job openings years back that I ignored due to the building’s radiation problem.

This is long feel free to edit as you wish.
Thanks,
John

this is the notice I”m seeing on the city-data.com site:
Note: Not all towers must be registered in the FCC database, so the above map may not list all the towers in the area.

Read more: https://www.city-data.com/towers/cell-Indianapolis-Indiana2.html