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Courtesy 01.11.2010 by Camilla Category Electromagnetic Health Blog

Bayville, LI residents are mad. Their children have to go to school across the street from a water tower covered with cell phone antennas. Parents are distraught. It is believed that as much as 30% of the teachers, staff and employees have some type of illness, cancer, leukemia etc. Homeowners are filing a federal civil rights law suit on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Central Islip asking the court to force removal of 50 antennas attached to the water tower across the street from the elementary school.

Fortunately for this village, they may succeed. The property on which the water tower sits was donated to the town with a deed that limits use of the property: the property can not be used for any commercial enterprise or in any manner which would be “obnoxious, dangerous or offensive” to homeowners situated within one mile of the property. Homeowners are requesting a judge declare that Sec 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which limits state and local governments rights to restrict antennas on health or environmental grounds, does not preempt enforcement of their private property rights. While most other cases of residents opposing antennas are hard to win because of Sec. 704, Bayville may have a chance because of the terms of the deed accompanying the donated land.

The village of Bayville, a part of the greater Locust Valley area that sits on beautiful Long Island Sound,receives $200,000 per year in revenues for allowing the antennas to be placed next to the school where students and teachers are getting sick. Tremendous conflicts of interest exist when schools are offered money for this purposes. But in many cases, the schools just don’t know there is a danger.

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