State sues Navy over expanded naval station flights

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The state’s top lawyer is suing the Navy over the noise and other impacts of the Growler jet expansion at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson made the announcement during a news conference Tuesday morning. He was joined by Paula Spina of Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve, or COER, a Central Whidbey group that’s been fighting the Navy’s plans to significantly increase the training flights at a small airstrip near Coupeville.

COER is also filing a lawsuit over the same issues.

Ferguson argued that the Navy violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act by not properly analyzing the impact an increase in Growlers will have on human health, the environment and historic resources.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/state-sues-navy-over-expanded-naval-station-flights/

I have to admit to having mixed feeling about this. I grew up on Whidbey Island and that airstrip has been there at least fifty years to my memory. More than likely it dates to WWII.

Though my understanding is the Growler jet is more noisy than the planes they used to use.

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1. Cavalier Navy

Between their stance on these Prowlers and their sonar percussive training that blasts vast swaths of the west coast I am not a fan of the Navy.

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2. When I lived on Whidbey in the '80's

the Navy jets would swoop in very very low over my lil farm, scaring the chickens, and startling us.
At that time, they had a Public Information office you could call, to complain, and all would be well for a few weeks, until the next time.
I lived in Greenbank, the middle of the Island, but there was really no place safe from the disturbance.

I can just imagine how much worse it will be with these new planes.

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3. We lived two houses down from a Navy pilot

He would buzz his house now and then.

I was young at the time and pretty much got used to it.