Thursday, March 15, 2007

Wind turbines could force family to leave Fairfield home by Bryon Ackerman

FAIRFIELD — If wind turbines are built in this northeastern Herkimer County town, one family may be forced to move.

Lisa Sementilli's 11-year-old daughter Alisha has central auditory processing disorder, which means Alisha hears fine but can't concentrate when she is around background noise.
Doctors have suggested that Alisha live at least one-and-a-half miles from any wind turbine, but Hard Scrabble Wind Farm towers planned in Fairfield would be less than half a mile away, Lisa Sementilli said.

"If they come, I have to move," she said. "I'm not going to put my daughter in any harm."

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