The experts determined that aircraft noise affected the health of neighbors Gavà

Institute of Legal Medicine of Catalonia determined that high levels of noise neighbors had to endure Gavà Sea by the activity of the airport between 2004 and 2005 caused them health problems physical, psychological and hearing. Continue reading the arículo.

3 The court of El Prat de Llobregat commissioned diligence to assess whether this ill health accredited by the residents in different clinical reports related to noise from aircraft. 

These reports, conducted by specialists and doctors, certified anxiety disorders, insomnia and loss of hearing in the case of adults, and irritability, anxiety, stress and sleep disorder, for school students All these symptoms "consistent" with those produced by prolonged exposure to loud noise, say forensic scientists. 

According to the report, the documentation provided by the court shows that there were "multiple measurements of noise in excess of those permitted between November 2004 and November 2005 with the launch of the third runway of the airport. This leads to the conclusion that "there is a causal link between the emission of noise and the symptoms presented by the population." 

The Neighborhood Association Gavà Mar assessed "positively" to this report "makes clear that the third runway meant serious health problems to neighbors." The president of the entity, Elisabet Martinez lamented that "Aena warned that there would be problems before they opened the third runway and we were not heeded, and now is demonstrated."