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Torrance : Further Study at Airport

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Torrance Municipal Airport noise, which has been studied for more than a decade, should receive more scrutiny, the City Council decided this week.

The council voted unanimously to hire the consulting firms of Rawlings Enterprises Inc. of Laguna Hills and Engineering-Science Inc. of Pasadena to study the noise made by some types of aircraft and to see if the noise standard should be toughened.

In November, the city released a preliminary list of 41 aircraft it said could not meet the city’s noise standard and barred them from using the airport.

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The two firms were asked to review noise levels produced by these aircraft and others that might not comply.

“The result of this study will be a more comprehensive list of aircraft that cannot meet the Torrance Municipal Airport noise standards,” Airport Manager John S. Cagaanan said in a report to the council.

Cagaanan said the city hired two firms to make results “more creditable and defendable in court. . . . Doing this now may cost a little more now but in the long run could save the city a considerable amount of money.”

The studies will cost about $52,000.

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