North County Transit District needs to know they're affecting our kids

From Transit pollution at PEC

From Transit pollution at PEC

From Transit pollution at PEC

I remember the first day I volunteered in my son's kindergarten room, which directly faces the train tracks in these pictures. When a train went by, I turned to look at the teacher and class full of 5 year olds, expecting that all of them would have hit the deck from the noise. However by that time, they were already so adjusted that they hardly paused before going back to work. I did not adjust as easily and am still irked that the power brokers in school, city and NCTD have not made at least this hundred yard stretch through Leucadia a priority to clean up and quiet down. The scary thing is that the noise is probably the least of all evils when I think about what is in those dust clouds blowing by. I remember not to long ago when the tracks from north to south were mulched. My understanding is that tree trimming companies were allowed to dump their mulch along the tracks. J.P.  at Leucadia Blog has written about this numerous times and has said that the NCTD put a stop to the mulching. J.P's writes in his most recent post: 

"The following is copied from the San Diego Air Pollution Control District
website:

"Prohibition against causing a public nuisance. California Health and Safety Code [
http://www.arb.ca.gov/bluebook/bluebook.htm ] Section 41700 states that no
person can discharge air contaminants that cause injury, nuisance or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or the public, or discharge air contaminants that endanger the comfort, health or safety of such persons. 

If a business violates this prohibition or any other air quality requirement, the District may issue a Notice of Violation to the business.

If a Notice of Violation is issued, the business must take action to correct the violation and pay a monetary penalty to the District.

Penalties are determined in accordance with Health and Safety Code Sections 42400 – 42403."



If you are annoyed by the air pollution caused by the trains, please go to the following website and fill out the Nuisance Complaint Form.

http://www.sdapcd.org/comply/cplt/cpltprog.html



Please send this to anyone else you know along the tracks, perhaps if a "considerable" number of people complain something will be done.

Maybe the PTA for Paul Ecke Central could start a petition and encourage all members to send in a complaint considering NCTD is polluting our kids lungs while they are out running around in the playground.
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 Our school has never looked better and the NCTD needs to know we're not stopping with the landscaping and a fresh coat of paint. Get everyone you can to sign a Nuisance Complaint form. It's time for PEC parents to make some noise about the noise!