Citation

Nykaza ET, Hodgdon KK, Gaugler T, Krecker P, Luz GA. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2013; 133(5): 2690-2698.

Affiliation

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 9005, Champaign, Illinois 61826-9005.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American Institute of Physics)

DOI

10.1121/1.4795781

PMID

23654377

Abstract

Military installations typically rely on noise complaints to indicate adverse noise environments and often restrict the firing of certain weapons to reduce the number of noise complaints. Using complaints in this manner may also imply that the absence of complaints is an indicator of low community annoyance. The relationship between individual complaints and general community annoyance, however, is currently not established, and it is unknown whether implementing restrictions in reaction to individual complaints is an appropriate or necessary way to reduce community annoyance. This paper looks at whether there are significant differences in reported annoyance to complaint-referenced blast events and general military noise annoyance between those who complain and their non-complaining neighbors. Those who complained were significantly more annoyed to both complaint-referenced blast events and general military noise in comparison to their non-complaining neighbors. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of range management.

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