Goal
Reduce or eliminate annoyance or disturbance to surrounding neighborhoods and
environments from road construction noise.
Requirements
Establish, implement, and maintain a formal Noise Mitigation Plan (NMP) during
construction for the prime contractor. The NMP must address, at minimum, the
following elements:
- Responsible party for noise mitigation activities, contact information, their
responsibilities and their qualifications. Include information for NMP preparer, if
applicable or completed by an outside party.
- Project location and distance to closest receptor of noise. Include a description of
the surrounding zoning and parcel information (i.e., commercial, residential,
hospitals, schools, parks, sensitive habitat).
- A list of proposed construction activities (e.g. demolition, excavation, paving, bridge
foundations, finishing).
- Dates and working hours of proposed construction activities.
- A list of noise-generating devices used during each construction activity listed in #3.
- A list of noise-mitigating devices used during each construction activity listed in #3,
including personal safety equipment requirements for all site employees.
- Noise permit numbers, agency or local authority policies associated with
construction work, as applicable.
- Description of noise monitoring standards, methods, and acceptable levels.
- Description of correction procedures for non-compliant noise levels.
- Signature of responsible party.
Documentation
PR-5 Noise Mitigation Plan
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For JudithR, thank you for all three of your comments. We will address these corrections in the next publish of errata and subsequent version of the Greenroads Manual. We will also fix that broken link on the live version (this website) right away.
PR-5 Page 1, #5
Delete #5. It is duplicative. NPS-GM
Unable to access this website (which is shown in the Requirements and Documentation Sections):
http://nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air_and_noise/
Message received: “You are not authorized to view this page”
It’s listed later in the first example as …
http://nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air_and_noise/index.shtml
… and that site works.
Documentation
Third to last bullet: remove extra “mitigation” after “source” (“Achieve mitigation of noise at the source mitigation by specifying …”)
Research
1st paragraph after bullets: “health” is listed twice, and one of them needs to be removed (“The response to any sound is a subjective experience and can depend on age, health, familiarity, time of day, health and more in addition to …”)
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The Greenroads Team