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From: Jean-Noel Lebrun
Date: 2017-10-14 17:04 GMT+02:00
Subject: How many noise victims for each city near Brussels Airport? The true facts / options at hand
To: 2040 (2040 brusselsairport), Arnaud Feist (brusselsairport), F Beckx (essenscia), Y Verschueren (essenscia.be), B Bbroze (essenscia.be), Peter Caes (dhl), Yves Nuyts (dhl), Koen GOUWELOOSE (DHL BE), Herman Carpentier (brusselsairlines), Thibault Demoulin (brusselsairlines.com), Matthias Colsoul (skytanking), Thomas Dupont (brusselsairport), Bjorn Hassert (brusselsairport.be), Carlos Van Nunen (brusselsairport.be) ...
 
Hello,
 
As key members of the Forum 2040, you deserve to know the true facts about pollution around the airport:

1. The amount of fine & ultra fine particules is multiplied by 20 up to 10 km downwind of the take-off point during peak hours.
 
The data was collected by the Flemish & Brussels regions in 2015, and results delivered to François Bellot and his team:
2. Based on the WHO (Word Health Organization) & European Commission ratios and the noise curves, we have about 180.000 victims (including children and elderly people) either annoyed or highly annoyed by the airport noise.  About 13 times more victims than the airport dares to disclose....

Detailed victim numbers for key cities in Flanders & Brussels
 
Flanders               highly annoyed                annoyed  
Zaventem                        3.412                   8.235    
Machelen                        2.738                    5.463    
Vilvoorde                   2.204                   6.550    
Steenokkerzeel                1.731                   3.761    
Grimbergen                     1.279                    3.911    
Kraainem                       970                    2.765   
Kampenhout                 936                   2.433
Wezembeek-Oppem      928                   2.548   
Herent                          706                   2.192 
Wemmel                       674                   2.568    
Kortenberg                    639                   1.820
Rotselaar                       549                   1.972
Wijgmaal                       503                   1.749
Tervuren                       435                   1.509
Haacht                          392                   1.248
Overisje                        116                      497
Meise                            111                     474 
Tremelo                          76                     325
Boortmeerbeek                66                     282  
Zemst                              18                      77
 
SUB-TOTAL               18.521                          50.648    
 
 
Brussels               highly annoyed                annoyed  
Schaerbeek                    8.096                  26.366    
Bruxelles Ville                6.424                  19.598 
Evere                           4.155                  11.091
Woluwe St Lambert          3.564                       11.320
Woluwe St Pierre             2.528                         8.110
Anderlecht                     2.388                   9.319
Forest                            2.005                   8.182
Saint Gilles                     1.756                   6.420
Molenbeek                    1.433                    6.142
Koekelberg                       881                   3.448
Berchem                           879                    3.769
Ganshoren                        847                    3.630
Jette                                  727                   3.116
Etterbeek                          268                   1.147
Saint Josse                        216                      924      
Auderghem                       200                     855
Watermael-Boitsfort             135                           578
 
SUB-TOTAL                36.502                      124.016    
 

 

All 2016 calculation details are derived from the following OMS curve and are available upon request.
 
 
Are such high victim numbers sustainable over time?  Of course not
 
At least four options need careful studying.  They will benefit our environment and will help foster our economic development:

 
A. Moving night cargo flights to better-fit runways.

 
DHL (99% of 2014 night cargo departures) has already implemented this move for all other european capitals. Using more trucks to drive and load/unload night cargo in Beauvechain, Bierset, Ostend or Zoersel will cost less than 10 cts/Kg.  

 
B. Moving the 25L runway 1.800 meters to the east.

 
The total investment required is only about 120 M€  and it will drastically reduce the number of airport victims under all departing routes. A more expensive option consists of building two new 27 runways further east (Silsembos)

 
C. Adding a 6 € / passenger and 0.12 € / Kg environmental tax to each flight

 
This tax will allow to implement a home repurchase plan for highly annoyed inhabitants, as already implemented for most noisy airports in Europe (Schiphol, Roissy, Zürich, Frankfurt,....)

 
D. Removing all night flights

 
In our developed countries, each human being is entitled to an 8 hours night sleep.  The 2016 presentation made to the Bellot Cabinet is very compelling:  http://www.coeur-europe.be/images/Comparatif/PourBellot-LaNuit.pdf

 
Best Regards,

 
Jean-Noel Lebrun
Speaker, Coeur-Europe