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July 28, 2011
NKU adding trees to muffle noise from stadium By Jeff McKinney jmckinney@nky.com
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS Northern Kentucky University plans to spend about $4,000 to plant evergreen trees near its on-campus soccer stadium, a move to help silence concerns about loud noises coming from the sports facility. The latest outlay will boost to more than $10,000 the amount NKU has spent in the last year to address those concerns.
Some residents feel the trees will help create a barrier that would block some of the stadium noise from reaching nearby neighborhoods, said NKU spokesman Chris Cole. Cole said NKU also has spent about $6,300 in the last three months to conduct a noise study to monitor sound levels coming from the stadium and establish additional ways to abate those noises. Some residents have expressed concerns to High-
land Heights City Council for several months, contending the noise is a nuisance to their homes. Resident Dave Ramler said the new evergreens will not help immediately, contending it will take 25 to 30 years before the trees would be an effective sound barrier. “Any efforts by NKU have been minimum in trying to reduce in-field soccer stadium-related noise,” Ramler said. The new $6.5 million
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trees would provide an effective barrier till they were grown. He added that he and other residents are willing to work with NKU officials on additional measures to get meaningful results. He said one measure NKU has not tried is relocating the loudspeakers at the stadium on the other side of the field, redirecting them toward the crowd. Cole said the sound study NKU conducted did include that measure and found it would not reduce noise levels. Highland Heights Mayor Greg Meyers said NKU has practiced a “spirit of cooperation” by looking at ways to address the noise issue.
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home of NKU women’s soccer team which like the men has ranked among the top college soccer programs nationally the past 10 years. In January, some residents said their main concern was how late stadium noise could be heard, sometimes beyond midnight, from both soccer games and weekend intramural football games. “Anytime you’ve got an outdoor sports stadium, you’re going to have some noise in the surrounding neighborhood,” Cole said. “But we will continue to do everything we can to limit that as much as possible.” Resident Eddie Arnold also said he didn’t think the
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on-campus stadium and a national championship men’s soccer team helped NKU rank among the top five in fan attendance last year among NCAA Division II college soccer teams. NKU ranked fourth nationally in average attendance with about 510 fans per game and third in total attendance in 2010 with 7,649 fans watching its 15 home games. The stadium seats about 1,000 people and is located near the university main entrance off U.S. 27. Cole said residents that have expressed noise concerns live near the southeast corner off the stadium on Harriet Avenue. The stadium is also
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